Band geeks and choir kids now have a new reason to keep making music as they get on in years: It may help promote brain health as they age. In a new study, researchers examined cognitive test results ...

Listening to your favorite songs can easily boost your mood, but that's not the only benefit associated with enjoying music. According to new findings published in the Journal of the American ...

Aerosol generated by playing woodwind and brass instruments is less than that produced when vocalizing (speaking and singing) and is no different than a person breathing, new research has found. The ...

Damaged instruments from the 'Symphony for a Broken Orchestra' are coming back into the Philadelphia School District, ready to play. Leo Zhang, a student at Mayfair Elementary, will learn to play a ...

If you want joy, listen to a live symphony. If you want delight, listen to Bill Edgerton's mechanical music. Edgerton is maestro to a veritable museum of mechanized, self-playing instruments. Ten ...

In case you've totally overlooked your "fun holiday calendar," this month, International Strange Music Day is upon us — a day dedicated to highlighting all sorts of weird sounds from obscure ...

Audiences always seem delighted when an actor proves to be more than a one-trick pony. They're especially enchanted when a performer can act, sing, dance... and play a musical instrument. Or two. How ...

Jimi Hendrix performing in 1967. Guitar was among the instruments non-players most wanted to pick up (Svenska Dagbladet/AFP via Getty ) Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest ...

When musicians improvise with ice instruments alfresco, anything can happen Under a frosty full moon, it took two hours in -20° C for ice sculptor Bill Covitz to put a scroll made of ice on a snow ...

Netflix's new biopic The Dirt is all about Mötley Crüe's music — well, that and the band's infamous hard-partying lifestyle and various love affairs. The four young actors who play the famous rock ...