The ‘rich and cosmopolitan’ work may help develop understanding of how cultures flourished across national boundaries. An early 17th century manuscript of Italian and French lute music is at risk of ...

Early Music, Vol. 40, No. 4 (November 2012), pp. 659-670 (12 pages) Il Mattaccino takes his name from the Italian word matto, meaning 'mad' or 'crazy'. Choreographies called Il Mattaccino and La ...

The event will take place at the Metropolitan Pavilion and at the Altman Building in New York from March 15 to March 17, and it will be part of the agenda of the Year of the Italian Culture in the USA ...

Robert Ballard was one of the most famous lutenist-composers of the first decades of the seventeenth century, during which the lute was the favored instrument of the Parisian aristocracy and upper ...

Classical musician and composer Michael Eagan, who co-founded Musica Angelica, a highly regarded early music group based in Los Angeles, has died. He was 55. Eagan died of an apparent heart attack ...

An early 17th century manuscript of Italian and French lute music is at risk of leaving the UK. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said the anthology has been valued at ...