Music is universal across all civilisations, both ancient and modern, and stands as one of the great joys of life. Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, ...

RIYADH, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese musical instruments exhibition titled "The Sound of Harmony: Musical Instruments in Ancient China" opened Sunday evening at the Saudi National Museum here. The ...

An exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix features some of China's earliest known musical instruments, the oldest dating from 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. Experts analyzing instruments in ...

URUMQI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- This summer, 18-year-old Uygur girl Aydina Yasen was overjoyed to receive her admission letter to the Konghou program at a conservatory in northeast China, offering her the ...

Carved bricks with figurines playing the musical instruments of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) are on display at an exhibition of ancient Chinese musical instruments at the Southern Song Dynasty Guan ...

In a sleek recording studio, young Chinese musicians are gathered around their instruments. Clad in traditional hanfu — flowing robes with wide sleeves and intricate headpieces — they are preparing to ...

Ancient Chinese music performed by husband-and-wife duo Wang Jian-xin and Li Feng-yun on the historic instruments qin and xiao will be featured at Brigham Young University Friday, Sept. 18, in the ...

URUMQI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- This summer, 18-year-old Uygur girl Aydina Yasen was overjoyed to receive her admission letter to the Konghou program at a conservatory in northeast China, offering her the ...

Chinese archaeologists working in Hubei province’s Zaoyang City have unearthed an ancient stringed instrument dating back thousands of years. It’s said to be the earliest ever found in China. Above: a ...

It’s fair to say that whoever invented the sheng, an ancient Chinese wind instrument, had no concept of 8-bit Italian plumbers. The golden era of the NES would come a good, oh, 3,000 years in the ...

We’re assuming that when the musical instrument known as the sheng was invented in China thousands of years ago, no one knew that it would one day be used to play a magically spot-on version of the ...

Allison Hernandez is modest and soft spoken, but when she picks up the erhu, she slips into another world. With a slight smile on her face and closed eyes, she moves with the music, as she draws her ...