Seventeen centuries before the German Hornbostel-Sachs system, India's Natya Shastra had already sorted every musical ...

Harmonium The harmonium is an integral part of Indian music. The instrument had originated in Europe. A prototype of the ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

Science of Sound: Seventeen centuries before the German Hornbostel-Sachs system, India's Natya Shastra had already sorted every musical instrument by what vibrates inside it, and a Bengali scholar ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

When Anoushka Shankar was 8, her father gave her a tiny sitar and began showing her how to handle and play the classical Indian stringed instrument. She slowly warmed to the long-necked sitar and to ...

Nirmala Rajasekar is one of the top performers of the veena - a South Indian stringed instrument - in the world. She makes her home in Plymouth, but spends three to four months each year on tour. When ...