Healing Music in a part of every culture known to man. From the gentle lulling of a mother to her newborn, to the rousing music created to build a crowd into a unified whole, music is a powerful force in the world. I have now spoken all over the United States and Canada, and in […]
Do you believe that the use of music for healing is a recent, “New Age” phenomenon? Of course not! Music has been used for healing purposes, both physical and emotional since ancient times. Historians know that music has soothed and comforted humans for thousands of years, and actually, music was routinely prescribed for the sick […]
Yes, the ancient Spring rituals probably included chanting, drumming, dancing/movement. Many anthropologists and ethnomusicologists believe that early humans’ attempts at what we now call music, came from their attempts to imitate the sounds of nature. The wind through the pines and the palms, the waves lapping the shore, the babbling brooks, and the gentle […]
When did the culture of Sumeria thrive? According to my sources, that would be 4th millennium B.C. According to Wikipedia, instruments of Ancient Mesopotamia include harps, lyres, lutes, reed pipes, and drums. Many of these were shared with neighbouring cultures. Contemporary East African lyres and West African lutes preserve many features of Mesopotamian instruments (van […]
How does music affect the person in love? We know that music is extremely important as well as influential to the person who is in love. Can you remember the first time you were in love? Was it puppy love, teen-age love, or young adult love? Falling in love, unrequited love and being in love […]
