Here’s a great new article from Scientific American: A mind for music By Elizabeth Quill August 14th, 2010; Vol.178 #4 (p. 17) There are very few activities for which your birthday suit and a three-piece suit are equally appropriate attire. Music is one of them. Belting an improvised ditty alone in the shower and performing [...]
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Do YOU have a mind for music?
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body
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Instruments of Healing Music: Drum Circles
June 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Affiliate Promos, Music Healing, Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, healing instruments
How many of you have ever participated in a drum circle? Today drum circles are very popular and for good reasons! Drum circle are loads of fun, require no prior musical training, require no musical ability and enable you to connect emotionally and energetically with people that you’ve never met before that day. I first [...]
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Instruments of Healing Music: The Flute
June 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Music Healing, Music and the Brain, healing instruments, music and spirituality
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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Components of Healing Music: Major or Minor Key
June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Music Healing, Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, music and spirituality
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: Instruments
June 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Healing Music Travel, Music Healing, Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, music and the heart
Good afternoon and welcome to lesson 7 of “Components of healing Music.” Today we get to the important topic of instruments! Healing music comes in many different shapes and forms. Healing music can be familiar, it can be unfamiliar. It can be soft and quiet or it can be full and swells and lulls (crescendos [...]
What Makes Music Sound So Sweet (or Not)
May 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Music and the Brain
) — Ever since ancient times, scholars have puzzled over the reasons that some musical note combinations sound so sweet while others are just downright dreadful. The Greeks believed that simple ratios in the string lengths of musical instruments were the key, maintaining that the precise mathematical relationships endowed certain chords with a special, even [...]
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The Brain and Music: A Therapeutic Duet
February 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Music and the Brain
“Zip-a-dee doo dah, Zip-a-dee-ay …” –A. Wrubel, R. Gilbert “Do-wah diddy-diddy dum diddy-do …” –The Moffats “Super-cali-fragilistic-expialidocious …” –The Sherman Brothers “What an odd thing it is to see an entire species–billions of people–playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music.”‘ –Oliver Sacks, [...]
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Music Can Heal the Brain
January 31st, 2010 · 4 Comments · Music and the Brain
Over the years, researchers have studied the various effects of music on human health, intelligence, and well-being, but more recently, researchers came to fascinating conclusions regarding music’s medicinal qualities. Music’s various positive benefits reach diverse groups of people: adolescents involved with music perform better in school , music increases exercise endurance by up to 15%, [...]
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