The first modern humans in Europe were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity as early as 40,000 years ago, according to new research. The first modern humans in Europe were ...

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 ...

For all its supposed majesty over all the European musical instruments, the organ is rarely depicted in masterworks of visual art. One catches distant glimpses of large organs in seventeenth-century ...