ATHENS (Reuters) - Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, ...

The ASTRA project, standing for Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application, has revived an instrument that hasn't been played or heard in centuries. Using the Enabling Grids for ...

EVROPOS, Greece, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both disciplines as a unity.

Douglas Feaver of Bethlehem, a Lehigh University professor of classics and an expert in the music of the Grecian classical period, began developing his expertise the hard way. As an undergraduate at ...

Thanks to a classicist’s research, the sounds of ancient Greek music can be heard again. Scholars have long been familiar with the instruments used during the era, and, of course, with the texts by ...

in Athens, a family of musicians, Lyravlos have recreated exact replicas of the ancient instruments from natural materials including animal shells, bones, hides and horns. Hymns sung to the Greek gods ...

Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, the kitharis, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musicians play lyre during a concert with reconstructed ancient instruments at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, ...