Asked if she fancied making ‘extreme early music’, Stef Conner couldn’t resist. Little did she realise how extreme. She explains how she has breathed life into a 4,000-year-old language Sometimes the ...

Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

The Anglo-Saxon lyre is one of the most iconic musical instruments of medieval Europe. Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Many replicas today are based on an artifact found at Sutton Hoo, a ...

The lyre was invented by the Sumerians of ancient Iraq around 3200 BCE. Its design was developed from the harp by replacing the single bow shape with two upright arms joined by a crossbar, and the ...

This article originally appeared in New Scientist. Stef Conner is a composer, performer, and musicologist with interests straddling classical and folk genres. She is working with a group that ...

A 1,600-year-old lyre found in modern Kazakhstan matches musical instruments seen in Anglo-Saxon burials of the first millennium ad, suggesting that technology transfer occurred across thousands of ...

More than 200 people from 16 different countries are converging on Belfast for Lyre 2006. The international event, which revolves around the musical instrument, takes place over six days, beginning on ...

More than 200 people from all over the world will converge on the Elmwood Hall at Queen's University - the home of the Ulster Orchestra - to take part in the third annual World Lyre Conference, which ...

A replica of an ancient lyre which was damaged during unrest in Iraq has been built by enthusiasts in Cambridgeshire. The instrument, similar to a small harp, was made around 4,550 years ago but was ...