Charles-Valentin Alkan, a name that dances on the tongue like a half-remembered incantation, was one of the 19th century’s most enigmatic and virtuosic composer-pianists.

Let’s take a time-traveling musical journey all the way back to the Bronze Age, where we find Hurrian Hymn No. 6—the oldest known piece of music ever written down. Buckle up, we’re going back over 3,400 years, and yes, this song slaps in cuneiform.

In a moving testament to resilience, memory, and justice long deferred, 79-year-old James Clark crossed the graduation stage this week at South Carolina State University—a place haunted by the echoes of injustice.

Adrian Maclin, the choir director at Cordova High School in Memphis, Tennessee, has been named the winner of the 2025 Music Educator Award.

Mongolian throat singing, known as Khöömei (or Höömii), is an ancient vocal tradition with roots in Mongolia and surrounding regions, including Tuva, Inner Mongolia (China), and parts of Siberia. It is an extraordinary art form in which singers produce tw...

Beloved high school chemistry teacher Frances Shaw retired from Northside High School in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 2012.

Many local libraries are expanding beyond books to offer music classes, food assistance, and even hand tools.

Historian Ruth Goodman explores the Ragged school movement, the social mobility that schooling offered, and how the classroom was a different experience depending on whether you were a boy or a girl.

"This is the clarinet that Mozart would have expected to hear when he wrote for it."

A harpsichord that entertained the elites of Italy in the mid-1500s has been restored by a South Dakota museum and will soon bring its sound to 21st-century ears.

The world's oldest piano was built by Bartolomeo Cristofori, an Italian instrument maker from Padua, who is credited with inventing the piano in the early 1700s.

The chalumeau is a woodwind instrument, considered a precursor to the modern clarinet. It first appeared in Europe around the 17th century, with origins possibly tracing back to earlier folk instruments.

The evolution from the clavichord to the modern piano is a fascinating journey through musical innovation and craftsmanship.

Andrew Kershaw shows us a rare and endangered instrument, seldom found in orchestras of today; the serpent - an unusual looking beast, distant relative of the tuba, which composers such as Wagner, Mendelssohn and Berlioz wrote for.

Spencer demonstrates the 5 types of vocal harmonies that every musician should know.