The Epitaph of Seikilos is the earliest surviving example of a complete written musical composition. It was inscribed on a tombstone in ancient Greece in the 1 st century AD. The notation doesn't look ...

Let's begin with the song "Walking in a Meadowe Greene" performed by the Baltimore Consort from their 1993 recording The Art of the Bawdy Song. Songs, catches, rounds, tavern songs and ballads fall ...