Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

Traditional Chinese orchestras, comprised of percussion instruments with a few stringed instruments, are centuries old. In 1879, the first Western-styled orchestra appeared in China, with Chinese ...

The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater ...

Professor Owl gives a lecture on the evolution of Western musical instruments, starting with the advent of rudimentary brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments by ancient cave dwellers at ...