In the recently released documentary film Talking Sticks: A Musical Journey, world-renowned vibraphone and marimba player Arthur Lipner travels the globe, exploring the roots and evolution of melodic ...

Rappers who play instruments bring an entirely different level of depth and artistry to Hip Hop. Their ability to blend lyricism with live musicality creates a sound that feels more intentional, ...

The positive effects of playing a musical instrument range from improving brain efficiency to heightening speech processing, which makes it easier to understand what people are saying in a noisy ...

"But the music is for everyone; it doesn't matter where you're from." The actual origin story of the melodic percussion instrument, however, is debated. Some ethnomusicologists argue that the marimba ...

An innovative rhythmic and melodic percussion instrument has launched on Kickstarter which kind of puts a full drum kit on your chest. The KeyTam features a main drum where the head tension can be ...

Gongs, drums and a variety of melodic percussion instruments probably unfamiliar to many Smithies will take center stage at Earle Recital Hall (in the basement of Sage) on Wednesday, April 20, for a ...

NORWALK — Over 100 brand new brass, woodwind and percussion instruments are in the hands of the district’s most in-need teenagers in what two of the district’s band directors say is a huge step in ...

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District ...

Discover the unique musical instruments invented in India, like the Sitar, Tabla, and Veena. Learn their history, ...

Then pick up a guitar, start tickling a piano’s ivories or join a band. Playing an instrument can promote a youthful pattern of brain activity, researchers reported July 15 in the journal PLOS Biology ...

I learned how to listen to gamelan in the womb. Quite literally, in fact; my mother, an American musician and ethnomusicologist, would play Balinese gamelan when she was pregnant with me, sitting ...