Volumes and volumes have been written about the human voice and its capabilities and unending possibilities. The thought of doing just a blog post on this is a bit daunting, but important nevertheless. When learning about healing music, I believe that it’s important to recognize that each of us already has everything we need to [...]
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Instruments of Healing Music: The Human Voice
June 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · healing instruments, Music and Relaxation, music and spirituality, Music Healing
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Instruments of Healing Music: The Flute
June 27th, 2010 · No Comments · healing instruments, music and spirituality, Music and the Brain, Music Healing
The flute is a beautiful and ancient instrument. The one to the left is what we call “Pan Pipes” and are referred to often in ancient literature and mythology. Some scholars believe that the first instruments were the percussion or “struck” instruments and the the flute came next as humans picked up reeds and blew [...]
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Instruments of Healing Music: The Harp
June 25th, 2010 · No Comments · healing instruments, music and spirituality, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
What’s the very best instrument for playing healing music? That is a question that I get asked quite frequently. I wish I could answer that question definitively for you, but of course it’s one of those personal taste matters! What is beautiful and healing and soothing and comforting for one person, could be absolutely annoying [...]
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Components of Healing Music: Modes, Whole-tone and Pentatonic Scales
June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · music and spirituality, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing, Music Medicine
Today is the final lesson in this series on the components of healing music. The component I’ve chosen is similar to yesterday’s lesson on Major and Minor but goes back in time hundreds if not thousands of years! In the 800-700′s BC, the music played in ancient Greece was not played in major and minor [...]
Components of Healing Music: Major or Minor Key
June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · music and spirituality, Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
Today is lesson nine of the series on components of healing music and I want to start, as always, with a disclaimer: my thoughts and ideas about components and definitions of healing music and not absolute. They are my own subjective ideas based on a lifetime of being a musician, a teacher, a performer and [...]
Components of Healing Music: Rhythm
June 17th, 2010 · No Comments · music and spirituality, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing, Music in the Hospital
Of all the components of healing music that you might be familiar with, rhythm is the one that can often hook people into a healing experience the fastest! Rhythm is simply a pattern of long and short notes, sometimes fast, sometime slow, that creates a repetitive sequence that encourages predictability and a feeling of [...]
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One of my favorite Christmas carols by John Rutter
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Announcements, music and spirituality
Last Sunday night, the choir at Highland Presbyterian Church in Louisville did an entire program of carols by John Rutter. This was one of them and it’s one of my favorites! Enjoy! And what are some of YOUR favorites?
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John Rutter and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
July 27th, 2009 · No Comments · music and spirituality
For me, music has always been a path to the God of my understanding. I’ve always loved the performances of the Mormon tabernacle Choir and I’ve always loved the music of John Rutter. Hope you’ll enjoy this performance of both of these!
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