Boulez may be notorious for applying dodecaphonic principles rigorously to dynamics, duration and timbre as well as pitch.

Join in with Music. A music series for KS2 pupils aged 7 to 11 providing opportunities to join in with music tracks. BBC ...

Rather than merely shaking my hand, Evelyn Glennie gives it a vigorous rattle, as if curious to discover what sound ... timpani, glockenspiels or any of the multiple percussion instruments that ...

Rather than merely shaking my hand, Evelyn Glennie gives it a vigorous rattle, as if curious to discover what sound it might produce. “I hope you haven’t been waiting long,” she says, although we are ...

Spector was a New York record producer who’d created the Wall of Sound—a Wagnerian diffusion ... and advents of formulaic combinations—instruments stacked on top of one another but ...

If you’re telling the story of shepherds there must be shepherd’s pipes, and in Bach’s oratorio they’re evoked in the delicious sound of ... body of stringed instruments that lent a ...

What has always struck people about Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite is the astonishing sounds ... instrument whose hammers hit metal plates, sounding similar to but softer than a glockenspiel ...

Sometimes the best way to make your track feel more kinetic is to eschew plugins and get creative with your instruments ...

The aim of this tutorial is to simulate the effect of applying modulation by double-tracking an external instrument ... they may sound a little odd when you play them back. It is important ...

From a modest workshop, Dan Larson turned his love of music, history and woodworking into a life building violins, lutes and ...