Inside every music box is a steel comb with tuned teeth (or lamellae) that make a single note when plucked. On some music boxes, a rotating cylinder covered in pins plucks the teeth, creating a tune.

Those saxophone lessons in second grade may still come in handy. Learning might come easier to those who understand music, according to Professor Emeritus Olin Parker, who teaches the Psychology of ...

Would Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance or Debussy's Clair de Lune have sounded the same if the composers had been born in different countries? Probably not, according to researchers who have found that ...

The contender with the highest profile is Andris Nelsons’ first recording with the Boston Symphony, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, also part of a cycle. No recognition for frequent nominees Michael ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...