A well-kept secret nestled in the north Valley off the 101 near Mayo stands the Musical Instrument Museum or MIM. MIM features instruments from many geographical areas, as well as items that used to ...

In Western music, the diatonic major and minor scales are mainly used for composing music. However, within these scales are also seven modes. The term ‘mode’ is derived from the Latin for ‘manner or ...

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The other night, I saw two raccoons fucking on my neighbour’s roof. I was just going up to bed, happened to glance out the window, and there they were. The male was mounting the female from behind, ...

Though originally set to music, we almost always encounter the Ancient Greek epics as mute texts. But now their songs can be heard again. At the beginning of Homer’s Iliad, the Greeks besieging Troy ...

An orchestra of ancient instruments, many of which exist only in paintings and yellowing manuscripts, will perform its first concert at the end of the year. Many of the instruments have not been heard ...

Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

Salpinx, barbiton, aulos, syrinx. Never heard them? Never heard of them? Neither had anyone else, for centuries. Until now. These were all musical instruments, familiar to ancient civilizations but ...

Ancient instruments can be lost because they are too difficult to build, or too difficult to play, but they can be heard again thanks to the ASTRA (Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction ...

The 21st Lord FitzWalter, who has died aged 90, inherited one of England's most venerable peerages, and was responsible for rebuilding his family home, Goodnestone Park, in Kent. When he moved into ...

An enduring misconception of cultural history is that the fall of the Roman Empire, approximately A.D. 400, disrupted Western civilization so severely that it led to a "dark age," during which the ...