Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...

This book addresses core questions about the role of materials in general and of wood in particular in the construction of string instruments used in the modern symphony orchestra - violins, violas, ...

Early this year, I attended a cutting-edge music performance and workshop at the celebrated venue Roulette, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, during which the ghosts of Memphis were very present.

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

When one thinks “violin,” the images that come to mind are the Stradivari and Guarneri instruments. When one thinks “violinist,” it is usually the superstar concert soloist – the Hilary Hahns, the ...

The violin, viola, cello and double bass are among the most recognisable orchestral and solo instruments. But there is a particular set known as the "Golden Age" instruments which are arguably the ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

The physical modelling and simulation of string instruments is an interdisciplinary field that integrates mathematical analyses, numerical simulations, and experimental validations to replicate the ...

Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, scored for solo string quartet and string orchestra, is one of the central pinnacles of the orchestral repertoire. In 1904, a crisis arose when Sir Henry Wood, ...