The universe is alive with the sound of music. Humans will find music almost anywhere. We find it in the songs of birds or the long-distance communications of whales. We hear music in the chirping of ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Bach never heard his harpsichord make sounds like this. Students in the History and Technology of Musical Instruments class taught by Matias Homar at Rochester Institute of Technology got the chance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The standard configuration of the symphony orchestra has remained mostly unchanged for the past century. But innovative artists ...

On The Map is where we highlight famous and not as well-known musical sites that you can visit. This month we check into a place that is top to bottom ...

Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

Ed Potokar is a musician who’s been playing the drums, composing (he wrote the theme to MTV’s Unplugged) and creating instruments for decades. So it’s a bit surprising to hear he was “a little scared” ...

"Too many people are trying to be elsewhere. If they'd just be here 'now,' they would have a better chance of getting there 'when.' " Darrell DeVore, musician, composer, experimental instrument-maker ...

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