Rather than following a linear timeline, this natural history winds in and out of centuries and genres, introducing a stream of personalities, facts and ideas. Knopf, 361 pp., $30. Appearing like ...

This entertaining new book about the origins and the importance of the piano starts off not with the instrument’s inventor (Bartolomeo Cristofori) or its most famous early advocate (Wolfgang Amadeus ...

This post originally appeared in Caixin. On Jan. 24, 1601, the Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci arrived in Beijing bearing a cache of gifts that he had spent years assembling, and even longer ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The history of the jazz piano starts in 1899. By my count, 20 pianists changed the direction of jazz over the course of 75 years. Here are 20 sample tracks in chronological order of those pianists.

Victorian concert superstar Arabella Goddard's Broadwood piano, which went missing for a century and a half, has been returned to its National Trust home ...

Even today's musicians know that jazz has a rapidly changing, living, breathing history. In a new video, young gun Kris Bowers takes a YouTube... Ever since "Evolution of Dance," YouTube and videos ...