In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by ...

In the orchestra of the Classical period, for example, you’d hear violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. Before the advent of the violin, the viol family was the go-to selection of string ...

An opera tells a story and the Magic Flute is a story of light and dark. During the Classical period some instruments underwent significant development. Harpsichords with plucked strings were ...

Archaeologists have found musical instruments made from animal bones that are 60,000 years old. The history of Western European music can be divided into separate periods of time. Each period has ...