A female voice of aching purity begins the song a capella, reverberating as if coming from a cathedral choir loft as it climbs an octave, announcing: “centuriones convenerunt, sicut magi sacris nigris ...

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Teenage Engineering calls its new digital music sequencer an instrumentalis electronicum, “the ultimate, and only, medieval beat machine.” I call it coolium thingamajignus because the EP-1320 embodies ...

A company has created what it says is the “world’s first electronic medieval instrument”. Teenage Engineering, a Swedish company known for making musical products played by musicians including Bon ...

Decked out in gold with Latin labelling, the EP-1320 Medieval arrives with an extensive bank of medieval-inspired samples that features farm animals, witches and "rowdy peasants" When you purchase ...

I didn’t know a medieval instrument could sound so cool until I saw this video. French musician Guilhem Desq electrified his hurdy gurdy and connected it to a sampler to create these amazing sounds ...

Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir (MWC), the only large volunteer choral group in the U.S. and Europe dedicated to performing medieval music, rings in the holiday season with a program titled “Natus ...

Since 1999, Belarusian music ensemble Stary Olsa (Стары Ольса) has been known for playing medieval folk music on traditional instruments, including the lyre, mandolin, flute, and gusli. That may seem ...