The great twentieth-century composer Pierre Boulez noted that the history of music is "littered with corpses: superfluous or over-complicated inventions, incapable of being integrated into the context demanded by the musical ideas of the age which...

A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument. The expression, however, is reserved generally for items that have a specific musical...

In a Feb. 20 story about the Supreme Court throwing out a damages award against Weyerhauser Co., The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount a jury said Weyerhauser should pay. The jury award was $26.25 million, not $29 million. The corrected version of this story...

Looking for a 2-foot lacquered sushi boat or antique ribbon? How about a feather mask, a zebra hide or a lampshade custom-made from parchment? Perhaps a vintage accordian or Chilean goat-toe shaker (a rhythm instrument) would bring out your inner...

CONSUMERSLuxury Buyers Have Same Global ProfileRetail managers take note: Luxury consumers in the U.S. and most of Western Europe have many similarities. A report by the Consumer Research Center of the Conference Board says the biggest similarity lies in how they stress experiences, rather than...