A group of Herriman high school band students are headed to the "Olympics" of percussion competition just three years after ...

In a significant archaeological discovery, two copper cymbals were unearthed at a4,000-year-old settlement near the modern ...

While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical instrument ...

The Mountain Ridge High School winter percussion ensemble performs at Mountain Ridge High School in Herriman. The Mountain ...

Humans have been making music for millennia. By the third millennium bc, sculptures and early written records suggest that ...

This type includes the keyboard percussion instruments. Unpitched instruments produce a sound that doesn’t have an identifiable pitch. This class include snare drums, most types of cymbals, maracas ...

Archaeologists have analyzed a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, suggesting a shared musical tradition connected ...

These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.

Bronze Age cymbals discovered in Oman show music's role in connecting ancient civilizations, shifting focus from trade to ...

Percussion instruments are hit, scraped or shaken to create a sound with players often using their hands or sticks to hit an instrument. There are many types of percussion including: Dujon playing ...

The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical instrument ... The Dahwa cymbals “fit within a larger, regional distribution of similar percussive instruments around the Arabian Gulf ...