An intriguing new study shows positive cognitive effects for older people playing an instrument for the first time.

A belly turns into a drum, hands mold into percussion tools and a face adorns a brass bell in this anatomical art history show ...

Older adults who kept practising a musical instrument or learnt a new instrument even after 70 preserved memory better than ...

The outside of the Brömserhof, the 15th-century knight’s manor where the museum is housed. Rudesheim Tourist AG/Marlis-Steinmetz A tour guide shows visitors a scroll from which music is played.

This is the second article in a series imploring STEM workers, students, and entrepreneurs to learn to create music. The first article explained why playing an instrument or producing music has many ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Which is the oldest musical instrument in the world? Peer inside the prehistoric cave discovery that dates back an ...

Why does the music in Blade Runner resonate so deeply? Because Vangelis, the mad genius Greek who wrote and performed the score, relied primarily on one instrument: the Yamaha CS-80. The thing that ...