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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 [...]

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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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Harpists Bring Comfort to the Dying

August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Music Medicine

I’ve been writing about music’s healing power for over 12 years now and I have seen the public’s awareness of the power grow and grow. Today, many hospitals have music therapy departments and the average person knows what is meant by music therapy, music healing, and music medicine. Almost daily, there are articles about all [...]

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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.

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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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