A kingdom is assaulted by a monster and a hero sweeps in with his army to defend the realm. Not the premise of a new Netflix fantasy series. Instead, a plot synopsis of the Old English epic Beowulf.

Last Friday, the Paris-based ensemble Sequentia treated us to the top 40 chart of 10th- and 11th-century secular European song. That might seem like a bizarre combination, but it made for an extremely ...

Musicians who study the music of Mozart or Bach are essentially trying to hit a fixed target. They have a text in front of them, with notes and sometimes words, and they spend their time mulling over ...

In New York City this week, Benjamin Bagby takes audiences back to Medieval times with his performance of Beowulf, which he sings in the original Old English as he plays the lyre, a six-stringed ...