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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Music and the Mind-Body'
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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Former KY governor sings “My Old Ky Home”
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Music Healing, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the News!, Music with Alzheimer's patients
If you love singing “My Old Ky Home” at the Derby each year, you’ll really love this rendition by former KY Governor, “Happy” Chandler!
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 Harp
June 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Music Healing, Music and the Mind-Body, healing instruments, music and spirituality
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 Healing, Music Medicine, Music and the Mind-Body, music and spirituality
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 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: Ostinato
June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Classical Music, Music Healing, Music and Relaxation, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the Hospital
While teaching my “Intro to Healing Music” class the other day, the topic of the ostinato came up. We were talking about the importance of people feeling “grounded” in order for healing to take place. When people feel like they are connected to something stable and solid, then they can relax enough to let go [...]
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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 [...]
