The language of music is universal, but can be lost over time. After a 20-year reconstruction effort, a researcher and a performer of medieval music have brought "lost" songs from the Middle Ages back ...

Centuries before recorded music, sheet music and streaming services, there were "little squiggles" on pieces of parchment to guide a singer or choir. Known as medieval neumes, the squiggles didn't ...

In a large hall of St Saviour’s Monastery in Jerusalem, delicate musical notes not heard for 800 years rang through the air on Tuesday as midday bells chimed outside. Hunched over a small collection ...

Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...

Ludwig: Guten Morgen Naomi. I’m ready to play some marvellous medieval music …I’ve even brought a lute! Naomi: But Ludwig, medieval church music didn’t use lutes - they didn’t use any instruments at ...