Music is like a language which everyone understands. It is an art form capable of generating great emotional response. Meet some of the world's famous composers and musical performers in this collection of music-based stories.
Cowboys of the "Old West" sang songs about their work (and the trouble they got into). This is an example.
In this audio-clip, we hear the Star-Spangled Banner as it would have sounded in 1854.
The words of Francis Scott Key's poem (The Star-Spangled Banner) were set to the music of a popular English tune known as To Anacreon in Heaven.
Taps is a 24-note bugle call which marks one of two events: It signals that all unauthorized lights must be extinguished. This is the l...