An exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix features some of China's earliest known musical instruments, the oldest dating from 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. Experts analyzing instruments in ...

When researchers in China discovered a series of tombs and horse burials, they saw that the archaeological site had been pillaged. One tomb, a large construction in the shape of the letter “A,” likely ...

Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - What do you want to learn next fall? Sure, you can just take the prerequisites for that quantitative economics or neurobiology degree. Graduating on time: that’s a good thing, but what ...

No historical evidence exists to tell us who sang the first song, or made the first rhythmic sounds that resembled music.

Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Michigan’s state motto translates to, “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” Replace peninsula with museums, and that pretty well describes the University of Michigan in ...

Modern Europeans will hear again the music and the instruments of their distant ancestors – from dwellers in caves to audiences at Greek and Roman amphitheatres – thanks to a £3.5 million project in ...

Chinese archaeologists Tuesday unearthed an elevated drum supported by two legendary phoenixes standing atop two tigers in central China's Hubei Province. The find was made in a tomb dating back more ...

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