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 ...

"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'.

From playing clarinets used in Mozart’s time to reconstructing instruments from paintings, period musicians are recreating history for modern audiences.

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Steven Nuss, Western Instruments, Japanese Music: Issues of Texture and Harmony in Minoru Miki's "Jo no kyoku", Theory and Practice, Vol. 21 (1996), pp. 167-187 ...

According to The Irrawaddy, Myanmar's Ministry of Culture has ordered the country's traditional orchestras not to use western musical instruments. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

For those who love Western classical music, it’s a godsend. But as a global app, Apple Music Classical barely scratches the surface.