These familiar sound effects can all be made using four strings, a bow and a touch of musicianship. Check them out… Daniel Blair is a violinist who has amassed millions of YouTube views, thanks to his ...

The purpose of a string in a string instrument is to vibrate and produce sounds. How it vibrates is decided by its mass per unit length, its stiffness, and how well it allows vibrations to flow ...

Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous scale and complexity. The effect is awe-inspiring.

The Music: Sibelius’s Second Symphony – in which he forged his most famous symphonic ‘big tune’ – is the warmest and most readily embracing of his seven. He wrote it not in the opaque light of Finland ...