Long before writing, agriculture, or the wheel, human beings were making music. The physical proof survives in a handful of slender, hollow objects pulled from Ice Age caves in Europe, drilled with ...

One of Tanzania’s most endangered possessions isn’t its wildlife; it’s its music. Dozens of musical instruments – and the skill set to play them – are facing extinction in Tanzania, which is why ...

The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human society that drank beer, played flute and ...

This flute is the first musical instrument in the history of humankind—one of the first examples of technology—which has surprised everyone demonstrating that music already existed 35,000 years ago.

When did flutes start being held sideways, and are there any that you play vertically instead? We dive into the history of classical music’s transverse instrument. In 2008, at Hohle Fels, a cave in ...

Raised in a family of musicians, Melissa Little Wolf Villalobos was introduced to Native American music by her elders. She first heard the sounds of Native American flautist R. Carols Nakai, of Navajo ...