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 [...]
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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
The Components of Healing Music: Tempo
June 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Music Healing, Music Medicine, Music and Relaxation, Music and the Mind-Body, music and the heart
Today is the sixth lesson in our series of “The Components of Healing Music.” Please remember that these components are not absolutes and are definitely open to interpretation. Music as a whole is very personal and each of us has our inner filters that we bring to our own interpretation of a piece of music [...]
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Components of Healing Music: Harmony
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Music Healing, Music Medicine, Music and the Mind-Body
The ladies to the left are members of a female barbershop quarter group called the “Sweet Adelines.” They sing mostly familiar songs but with a unique type of harmony. “Barbershop” harmony is quite distinctive and easily recognizable. The harmony that is heard in music with a healing quality is very different, but the idea [...]
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Research in Music Healing Runs from Birth forward…
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Music Medicine
For anyone wanting to know how music can be used for healing or for wellness, there are hundreds of studies in libraries, journals and on the internet. I thought my readers might enjoy seeing just a sampling of some of the published studies from 2009. These studies run the gamut from pregnancy and preemies, to [...]
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Apollo, God of Music and Medicine
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Music Medicine
Apollo, God of Music and Medicine When I first started my website, www.HealingMusicEnterprises.com, way back in 1999, one of my first thoughts was to have a theme that would say music and medicine, music as medicine, music for healing, and sound as healing, wordlessly. I thought first of Apollo who was the Greek god of [...]
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Michael Jackson, Music, and Anesthesia
July 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music Medicine
When I started this blog a little over a year ago, I certainly never thought there would be a connection between Michael Jackson, music and anesthesia. And yet, in the final hours of his life, it was quite possibly a dose (or overdose) of one of the most potent anesthetics available; the drug is Propofol, known by its commercial name of Diprovan.
Music, the ear, and your mood
January 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music Medicine
Many people have blogged about the importance of music to our workouts. There has been a lot of research about the effect of music on mood and even matching tempo to heart rate. There also appears to be a magic number for volume; Spinal Tap had it right all along. Dr. Neil Todd and his [...]
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