Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...
Which is the oldest musical instrument in the world? Peer inside the prehistoric cave discovery that dates back an ...
A new exhibition that opened this week at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art puts 4,000 years of human music-making ...
“What is music?” my friend asked me. I explained how we, as humans, instinctively react to music by moving our bodies in weird ways, just dancing, and that’s universally understood. I thought that was ...
“Musical Bodies,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, revels in the blurry boundaries between humans and instruments. By Joshua Barone Visuals by Ye Fan Clap your hands. Tap a foot.
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The glass harmonica’s bad reputation was entirely undeserved, though.
Learning a musical instrument later in life may help keep the brain younger for longer. In a four-year study, older adults ...