Other experiments explored harmony perception with Western and non-Western musical instruments, including the bonang. Instinctive appreciation of new kinds of harmony The researchers found that the ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...

Western music is very connected to the rich history of Arabic music. Many of our Western musical instruments are direct descendants of Arabic stringed and reed instruments as well as the use of ...

Rev. ed. of: The king of instruments : how churches came to have organs. London : SPCK, 1993. The organ is the largest instrument with the largest repertory and the greatest influence on Western music ...

According to The Irrawaddy, Myanmar's Ministry of Culture has ordered the country's traditional orchestras not to use western musical instruments. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and ...

“Western research has focused so much on familiar orchestral instruments, but other musical cultures use instruments that, because of their shape and physics, are what we would call ‘inharmonic’. The ...