This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.

Composing music can be quite difficult – after all, you have to keep in mind all of the elements of musical theory, from time signature and key signature to the correct length for all of the notes. A ...

Classical music is a wonderful tool for relieving everyday stress, supporting mental health and easing you into sleep at the end of a busy day – so let the dulcet tones of a beautifully-played flute ...

A classically trained flutist, the singer, rapper and songwriter spent more than three hours admiring the flute collection at the Library of Congress. Madison’s instrument was made for the second ...

The flute may not carry with it the prestige of larger, more bombastic-sounding instruments in the repertoire of an orchestra, but consider this: In 2008, archaeologists found a bone flute and two ...

A vulture-bone flute discovered in a European cave is likely the world's oldest recognizable musical instrument and pushes back humanity's musical roots, a new study says. Found with fragments of ...

Claire Chase, a flutist and MacArthur “genius,” on Saturday afternoon did what only a brilliant flutist and MacArthur “genius” could do: She turned UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall into a giant lung. It is ...

Hubballi: The notes from his flutes can be heard in as many as 120 countries but thirty-seven-year-old Ramesh Bakale from Gadag is yet to see his biggest dream fulfilled- a music education society and ...