The classic violinists each earned their place at the international competition by triumphing in preliminary rounds across ...

Professional musician Alexandra Shatalova Prior guides readers through the nuances of some of the world’s best-known classical music. Each embedded video below offers a clip of the passage she ...

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While a violin and a fiddle are structurally the same instrument, a fiddle is its own entity—one that's grounded in its ...

Japanese glassblowers have turned their chops to replicating the string instrument – so closely that they’ve created an extraordinary glass violin that can actually be played like the real thing.

Watch the Super Mario World theme evolve through 5 exciting music levels – from beginner notes to an epic violin remix! A treat for fans of retro gaming, game music, and cinematic sound. If you love ...

The violin played as the Titanic ship sinks in the Hollywood film is expected to sell for £60,000 at auction. Amid the chaos of the sinking ship, a string quartet plays the hymn Nearer My God To Thee, ...

The violin played in Hollywood blockbuster Titanic when the ship was sinking is set to sell for up to £60,000 at auction in Wiltshire. The instrument, which can be seen multiple times in the 1997 film ...

music. Known collectively as Black Violin, the Grammy-nominated duo will be performing April 9 at the Scottish Rite Auditorium. The two virtuosos first met back in 1996 on the first day of ...

“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...

An internationally-renowned Long Island music store sold valuable bass violins ... the store owner would respond in court. Editor’s note: The value of some instruments was misstated due to ...

And in a sidestep into the mechanics of sound and music theory, he explains that a good violin has a lot of overtones: the fundamental, or primary, note when played also has a variety of ...