The one likely exception is the theorbo, a 6-foot-long relative of the lute with a neck that extends far above the body of the instrument. "Nobody knows exactly what the word means," says lutenist ...

This was the theorbo, a relative of the lute with an almost surreally long neck, developed in 16th-century Italy. Cox hadn't played a stringed instrument before, but he loved the theorbo's unique ...

By Damian Flanagan A few weeks ago, I attended a rather unusual concert in Cambridge, England. All the pieces of music dated ...

You might expect a baroque German theorbo to be a more faithful vehicle for Bach’s solo cello music than a modern viola. But Hopkinson Smith’s approach to the first three suites goes much ...

In his most recent video, Rob turns his metallic fingers to the theorbo for a slice of what he calls "17th century djent". His 14-stringed instrument is essentially a large lute with an extended ...

But if nothing else, we have to admit what must be admitted: the man has skill, talent, and loads of creativity. This time, my man Rob plays metal on a damn theorbo, an instrument created in the 17th ...

His CD, Straight Outta Lynwood, is nominated for Best Comedy Album. Rolf Lislevand plays an ancient lute called a theorbo on Nuove Musiche, one of producer Manfred Eicher's albums. Known for ...

In his Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni (1650), that wildly imaginative polymath Athanasius Kircher all but proclaims Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (c1580-1651) the Apollo of the ...

Chatham Baroque artistic directors Andrew Fouts (violin) and Scott Pauley (theorbo & baroque guitar) partner up for a plugged-in program that covers a whole lot of musical ground, from renaissance ...

Robert Johnson’s song performed by Tom Guthrie, accompanied by Yair Avidor on theorbo. O Let Us Howl is a song written by composer Robert Johnson around 1613 for The Duchess of Malfi ...