Counting down the best songs inspired by ancient mythology, including tracks by Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Deftones, and of ...

The oldest song to have survived in its entirety is an Ancient Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph”. Credit: Lennart ...

A centuries-old puzzle about the music that Ancient Greeks listened to has finally been solved, thanks to a pioneering new study. Music was an integral part of Ancient Greek culture, with the work of ...

In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the words of an unnamed professor of Greek with musical leanings: "Nobody has ever made ...

New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that "stressed poetry," the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd Century CE, 300 years earlier ...

In ancient Egypt, rituals honoring the goddess Hathor could be noisy affairs. Worshippers shook sistrums — rattle instruments — to mimic the sound of the solar deity moving through rushes and grass as ...

It is the height of innovation and collaboration, but isn't coming from Atlanta's hip, intown arts troupes. Instead, a community choir that serves historic small towns south of Atlanta -- Griffin, ...