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
By Dr. Alice Cash on June 27, 2010 in healing instruments, music and spirituality, Music and the Brain, Music Healing
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 […]
Instruments of Healing Music: The Harp
By Dr. Alice Cash on June 25, 2010 in healing instruments, music and spirituality, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
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 […]
Components of Healing Music: Modes, Whole-tone and Pentatonic Scales
By Dr. Alice Cash on June 24, 2010 in music and spirituality, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing, Music Medicine
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
By Dr. Alice Cash on June 23, 2010 in 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 […]