Producer Halfpast's retro-themed YPC chops up any YouTube video across the computer keyboard for instant finger-drumming fun ...

Composer Ludwig Göransson has reunited with Christopher Nolan to score “The Odyssey,” marking their third collaboration after ...

The album received a critics' score of 7.6 from the music publication Pitchfork, higher than the ratings awarded to Aphex Twin's ‘Drukqs’ and Daft Punk's ‘Discovery’ ...

Homeowners and renters insurance both cover musical instruments as a part of their personal property protection, but that coverage can be limited. While you may be able to make some increases to that ...

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 ...

Percussion instruments have a way of anchoring a song. They keep time, sure, but the ones that also carry melody add something harder to describe: a shimmer that feels like harmony without ever ...

The UAB Summer Percussion Camp will consist of five days of instruction during the week of June 23 through June 27, and will feature group lessons, specialty sessions, and masterclasses. The camp ...

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 ...

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A koto is a traditional Japanese 13-stringed instrument similar to a zither, with movable bridges for tuning. Players wear three picks known as tsume on their thumb and first two fingers to pluck the ...

Scott Yoo learns about how Icelandic percussion instruments helped create and inspire “Hekla” by Jón Leifs. Scott Yoo crosses this sunlit, rainy, volcanic land of extremes to meet Icelandic composers.