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 ...

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 ...