From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

Serenity now! One of the world's most “transcendent” players teams up with a neuroscientist on pipe organ for an album of ...

The Stony Brook University Orchestra held its final concert for the semester on April 28 at the Staller Center for the Arts. Seventy students made up the ensemble, including a mix of students majoring ...

Angine de Poitrine don't abide by the usual rules of Western music, using their own custom-built guitar to strike notes that ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

Hello! I'm just a medical student. Well, last time I delivered a spin-off titled "History Mystery of the British Royal Family (Henry VIII)," but starting from this lecture, we are entering the "final ...

The sun is one of the most studied objects in the history of science. The ancient Babylonians and Chinese tracked sunspots and solar eclipses, etching their observations into clay tablets; these ...

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The long string instrument, which was created by Ellen Fullman, is 60 feet long and features 44 bronze strings stretched ...

A koto is a traditional Japanese 13-stringed instrument similar to a zither, with movable bridges for tuning. Players wear three picks known as tsume on their thumb and first two fingers to pluck the ...

Nowadays, when we listen to music on our smartphones, it is perfectly normal to hear songs in various languages, not just American pop, but also Korean K-pop, Latin American music, and more. Even if ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Stringed musical instrument. Neck of ...

The Calidore String Quartet, in residence at the University of Delaware, features instruments with unique histories. Calidore's next show is at University of Delaware on April 6. The group's oldest ...