The World on a String

兰 草音乐 In an article on the "reform" of traditional Chinese musical instruments (周大风 "民族乐器的改革," > 2001: 3), the musico...

It's the 190th anniversary of the first performance of Silent Night (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) in Obendorf, Austria, 1818. According ...

In many ways, this image sums up what I am trying to do with this blog (and in the book I'm working on). The pipa is a short-necked bo...

Throughout history, billions of strings have been plucked, bowed or hammered on citarras, pandouras, violins, pipas, biwas, đàn tỳ bàs, ba...