Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

British parents encourage their children to play musical instruments as part of a family tradition and not to boost their social status as Americans do, research says. Dr Aaron Reeves, of the ...