Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

Metal, rock and punk bands are typically composed of a vocalist, drummer, bassist and one or two guitarists, but many acts have differentiated themselves from the crowd by including something ...

The large bamboo flute called daegeum, used in traditional Korean music, is uniquely capable of producing a wide range of listening experiences from a single ancient woodwind instrument. Daegeum, a ...

The eighth annual Woodwind World concert, created by music professor Gary Gray, will take place in Schoenberg’s Jan Popper Theater Thursday night. UCLA music professor Gary Gray said the instant ...

The woodwinds were made to mimic the screech of a raptor, and they trace back to the beginning of the transition to agriculture. Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

RASCOE: If you somehow managed to escape attending one of these concerts, the recorder is a woodwind music instrument. It's got a thumb hole and seven finger holes. And when it's played by a gaggle of ...

This latest in a series of articles on where in London to learn different types of instrument, among other things, focuses on those you blow down/through/into. Woodwind instruments don’t get the ...