"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 ...
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 ...
insider.si.edu: Check-list of Western instruments in the collection of musical instruments, by Sibyl Marcuse
Check-list of Western instruments in the collection of musical instruments, by Sibyl Marcuse
Other experiments explored harmony perception with Western and non-Western musical instruments, including the bonang. Instinctive appreciation of new kinds of harmony The researchers found that the ...
KING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS has been responsible for redesigning and improving the tonal and playing quality of more than 28 instruments, including the slide trombone, cornet, trumpet, and clarinet. It ...
Traditional Chinese orchestras, comprised of percussion instruments with a few stringed instruments, are centuries old. In 1879, the first Western-styled orchestra appeared in China, with Chinese ...
BroadwayWorld: André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopen at The Met, 3/2
After an eight-month hiatus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments on March 2, featuring a refreshed and reinstalled presentation of its renowned ...
insider.si.edu: The king of instruments : how the organ became part of western culture / Peter Williams
Rev. ed. of: The king of instruments : how churches came to have organs. London : SPCK, 1993. The organ is the largest instrument with the largest repertory and the greatest influence on Western music ...