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 […]
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Former KY governor sings "My Old Ky Home"
By Dr. Alice Cash on July 16, 2010 in Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing, 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
By Dr. Alice Cash on June 29, 2010 in Affiliate Promos, healing instruments, Music and the Brain, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing
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 […]
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 […]