For centuries, the standard wood used to make string instruments’ bows has come from the pernambuco tree in Brazil. Its ...

Ludwig Göransson built The Odyssey score with ancient instruments, bronze percussion, synthesizers, and James Blake's voice, ...

Underwater photo of the Vanguard station. Credit: DEEP. Seventeen meters beneath the Florida Keys, a steel cylinder now waits for its first residents. The structure, called Vanguard, resembles a ...

The duo of Drew Frech and Becky Schneider will perform on banjos Friday night, the latest installment of the Musical Moments ...

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It has long been understood that musical training brings many positive effects, cognitively and emotionally. Much of the previous research, however, has focused on children. And in fact, when we tend ...

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has unveiled a statue honouring Sushruta, the ancient Indian physician long associated with early plastic surgery. The recognition has renewed discussion ...

Learning a musical instrument later in life may help keep the brain younger for longer. In a four-year study, older adults who continued practicing maintained their memory performance and showed less ...

EPISD has notified the Texas Workforce Commission and other state agencies of a total of 250 layoffs by June 19.

Genre boundaries have never been foolproof ways of describing music. Music is too diverse to be wrapped up in little boxes. But genre lines are necessary evils. They work well enough to help listeners ...

The Dance of Death, a 16th-century artwork by an anonymous German artist Metropolitan Museum of Art / Purchase, Harry G. Sperling Fund, James A. and Maria R. Warth gift, in memory of Anne and Peter ...

A new tree-ring study solves the mystery of where the famed instrument-maker Anton Stradivari sourced timber for his violins during his “golden age.” A French chemist inspects a Stradivarius violin at ...