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 ...

A group of investors, including businessmen who are twin brothers and amateur violinists, have agreed to buy a controversial collection of rare string instruments from the New Jersey Symphony ...

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 ...

CHRIS GOSPER OFTEN heard fellow musicians complain that there were no opportunities to perfect and perform their music during the summer, when many local orchestras take a break. The principal violist ...

Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...

A key composing skill is understanding the sounds that musical instruments make and how they can combine together to create a sound, that you want for your composition. A violin is the highest pitched ...