Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite its centrality to today’s theater, musicals are often thought of as second class to what is considered legitimate theater, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Music scholars are recreating ancient Greek songs that haven’t been heard for thousands of years. The results aren’t very inspiring, but we’re finally getting a sense of what the ancients were ...