Learning about another culture is a multisensory experience at the Musical Instrument Museum. On June 4-5, guests have the chance to experience Italian culture through different styles of music, food, ...

A 15th century Italian banker named Cosimo de’ Medici, in addition to creating a financial empire, collected and preserved music from Florentine composers. The Newberry Consort will share music that ...

Resounding beauties : the beauty of sound / Franca Falletti -- Mucial instrument collections in Renaissance and Baroque Italy / Renato Meucci -- Italian musical instruments in Europe : the dynamics of ...

All of these instruments were made by Antonio Stradivari, and are valued above $15 million.

Italy’s oldest musical instrument may have sounded like a lute…or a lyre: “The ceramic shell at first appeared to be one of a kind. One hypothesis was that it might have been a cheese strainer. Then, ...

MILAN -- Before the pandemic, students at Italy's oldest and largest music conservatory were always told to move "closer, closer, closer" when they played together. "Because you need to hear each ...

NOTHING else perhaps, in Italy, has changed so considerably in the past half century as music. And if this has been overlooked to some extent, it is only because other activities in which changes far ...