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 Flute
June 27th, 2010 · No Comments · healing instruments, music and spirituality, Music and the Brain, Music Healing
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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 are 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 and the Brain, music and the heart, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
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 […]
Understanding Human Obsession: Music
May 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Brain and Music Cortex, Music and the Brain
This Is Your Brain On Music: understanding a human obsession Daniel Levitin BUY HERE NOW ISBN 978 1 84354 715 0 “With a neuroscientist’s conviction that the as-yet inexplicable is just shadows and dust and cryptic meaning, Daniel Levitin sets out to explain why collections of easily-recognisable sounds have such a profound impact on our […]
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What Makes Music Sound So Sweet (or Not)
May 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · 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. More recently, researchers came to fascinating conclusions regarding music’s medicinal qualities: music can heal the brain. Music’s various positive benefits reach diverse groups of people: adolescents involved with music perform better in school , music increases exercise […]
Understanding Brain Waves: Tune Your Brain
January 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
They say that the brain is the last unexplored frontier, but over the last decade or two, much research has been conducted that documents how sound and vibration impact the brain in a very positive way. The following was found on today’s “The Daily Turn-on.” Enjoy! Did you know you can actually charge up your […]
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