‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments (opens in new tab)  🎨NYC Museum Scene  Content type: News

Musical Bodies looks at 4,000 years of musical history and how humans have forged relationships with instruments’s compelling new exhibition looks at 4,000 years of musical history, teasing out the complex web of interrelationships between the sounds made through human bodies and the many instruments we have used to alter and augment those sounds. From singing, whistling and bodily percussion to a vast array of constructed objects, the show is a rich exploration of how our musical identities ...

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