Few Chinese people have heard of the yue, an ancient wind instrument that belonged to the flute family. However, this flute, the name of which is pronounced the same as the word for "music" in Chinese ...

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Stone Age humans may have ripped raw meat from the bone, but they also played music, according to a study reporting the discovery of a 35,000-year-old flute, the oldest instrument known. Found in the ...

Under the Microscope: Music has a biological basis in the brain, where several regions are involved in particular aspects of processing music, such as recognising a melody, or expressing emotional ...

A bone flute unearthed at Jiahu in Wuyang county, Henan province. CHINA DAILY ZHENGZHOU－More than 8,000 years ago, a red-crowned crane died, leaving behind a bone from its wing to be claimed by ...

Seven miniature flutes carved from the wing bones of prehistoric birds have been discovered in Northern Israel – and they uncover a long-lost piece of humans’ musical history. The 12,000-year-old ...

ZHENGZHOU, China, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Three flutes made from bird bones found in an tomb in central China are evidence remote ancestors played music long before they could write, archaeologists say. Made ...

A world premiere performance of Julian Lampert's 'Quintet for Flute and String Quartet' is featured during Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival's (CCCMF) 38th season during Borromeo and the Ancient Flute, ...

The discovery of the world's oldest musical instrument -- a 35,000-year-old flute made from a wing bone -- highlights a prehistoric moment when the mind learned to soar on flights of melody and rhythm ...

“The Empty Bell,” the title Nora Nohraku Suggs (her Japanese performance name) chose for her shakuhachi recital Saturday at Peter Hall at Moravian College, has a zen ring to it. The ancient bamboo ...