SUSONO, Shizuoka Prefecture--A sprinkler system malfunction apparently caused hundreds of millions of yen in damage to musical instruments set up on a stage here shortly before the Sinfonietta ...
Watch musicians from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra play and talk about their different instruments. Time to get creative! Creative Lab is an art and design game that lets you paint, draw, build and ...
The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...
Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...
This article serves as an introduction to our upcomingseries on classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we will show you how musicians play the eight ...
From the earliest playable musical instruments to their roles in a modern four-section orchestra, Chinese traditional instruments and their 8,000-year history explained. The ‘Chinese bagpipes’ and ...