Musicians will be delighted to know that the site provides sheet music, so if you fall in love with a particular piece, you can follow along or even learn to play it. When Last.fm was initially ...

We get the resistance to streaming. You're paying not to own music, just rent it. And physical media is so much better in so many ways – sound quality, tactility, artwork, a deeper connection with the ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of ...

And these roots – where we can identify them from the sparse medieval and Early Modern sources – express Christian beliefs and practices. The medieval roots of ‘Mothering Sunday’ There is no simple ...

At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript ... Charmed by his music, Arthur agrees to the strange ...

Historians describe the conflict as being "massively underrated" yet "the biggest medieval battle in England". So, what exactly happened, who were the main players, and did it change the course of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Music streaming dominates the way we listen to music today. Despite the continuing popularity of ...

Mandolin orchestras were a big deal in the 1920s. They aren't so popular in the U.S. these days. But Jon Kalish tells us how one mandolin orchestra, whose 11 members are some of the greatest ...

It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court. In it, the magician becomes a blind harpist who later ...

These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that ... histories, in some cases, music." The artists behind the marginalia — known as illuminators — ranged from monks ...

Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis tells Katty Kay how growing up surrounded by music shaped his own journey with jazz. The enigmatic musician has released one of the most raved-about LPs of ...

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