A young lute player is aided by a harmonizing spider who resides in her lute, unbeknownst to her. Though the spider becomes attached to the lute player, she continues to feel loneliness and longing for her home among other spiders in the forest of her birth.

A group of musicians mourn their recently deceased friend. Their complicated ways of grieving conflict with one another as they try to plan a memorial party together.

A thirteen-year-old boy forms an unlikely friendship through music with a sickly boy from Pakistan.

A young boy learns to play the accordion, and slowly watches his parents drift apart as he grows up.

A mysterious orchestra conductor who has grown a tail generates intrigue among members of New York's high society and captures the attention of a princess.

When eccentric scientist Papa Schimmelhorn plays his seemingly harmless bassoon, a wave of material-eating Gnurrs are summoned by the millions. He uses them to end the war against Bobovia.

A journalist visits the Florida home of a deceased world-renowned pianist to hear him play Chopin from the afterlife.

In the far future, a woman is selected to undergo a Great Becoming. As she is forced to choose what she will become, she realizes that someone people do not have to choose at all.

A riverboat captain and shantyman engage in a flute-playing competition with life-or-death consequences.

A cynical flutist and his accompanist friend audition together for a talent-seeking event. After their performance falls flat, the flutist speaks with a retired famous musician whose misery makes him question his lifelong goals.