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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 ...

Two models of “twin” traditional Khmer instruments, the twin takhe and the twin khim, were developed in 2014 by a Phnom Penh geography teacher. He aims to debut updated, easier to play versions of his ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Daniel J. Wakin THE oboes and clarinets and flutes and bassoons stand upright, like stalks in a vegetable garden. A motley sisterhood of keyboard ...

If you are planning to learn a new string instrument, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. With string instruments for beginners available in both Indian and western instruments, you ...

From left to right: Chinese Pipa master Wu Yuxia plays on stage in Tianjin in 2010.[Photo by Cao Tong] Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] ...

I once asked Anne-Sophie Mutter, the great violinist, what had made her choose the fiddle. “I didn’t,” she replied. “It chose me.” That’s how it is with prodigies. At the age of three or thereabouts ...

Laura Case receives funding from the Henderson Postgraduate Scholarship. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. The ...

“Western research has focused so much on familiar orchestral instruments, but other musical cultures use instruments that, because of their shape and physics, are what we would call ‘inharmonic’. The ...