Music has been with humans for a very, very long time. But as time marches on, history can lose the records of what that music sounded like. Take the Greeks for example. We can see the stadiums and ...

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 ...

Hotels, airports and shopping malls in Greece could be forced to play more domestically-made music under new legislation proposed by the Culture Ministry, intended to support Greek composers and ...

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 ...

His 1969 composition "O Dromos" remains one of the highest-selling albums in Greek history. By Associated Press Mimis Plessas, a beloved Greek composer whose music featured in scores of films, ...

Ioanna and Areti Spanomarkou. Photo Courtesy of Strofinx. Award-winning Greek composers, producers, filmmakers Ioanna and Areti Spanomarkou their inspirations in music and filmmaking, as well as being ...

Dr David Creese plays a song originally found on stone inscriptions from ancient Greece on an eight-string "canon" instrument The music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of years, is being ...

Though he grew up in Athens, Andreas Georgas didn’t hear about rembetika, the music commonly known as the “Greek blues,” until 1994, when he was 18. He was studying piano at Roosevelt University when ...

Mikis Theodorakis, who has died aged 96, was a Greek composer of symphonies, cantatas, ballets and operas, but remembered worldwide for his Zorba the Greek and Serpico film scores. He was also ...