Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

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 ...

All of these instruments were made by Antonio Stradivari, and are valued above $15 million.

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 ...

Music serves as a lens through which the West can view Middle Eastern culture. “It is an excellent way to investigate important aspects of culture—from history to colonialism and from contemporary ...