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
By Dr. Alice Cash on June 20, 2010 in Music and Relaxation, music and the heart, Music and the Mind-Body, Music Healing, Music Medicine
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 […]
Components of Healing Music: Harmony
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 is […]
Research in Music Healing Runs from Birth forward…
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 […]
What do you know about "Second Life"?
By Dr. Alice Cash on September 16, 2009 in Affiliate Promos, Classical Music, Music Medicine, Music Research, Wanda Landowska and Harpsichord
Do you know about “Second Life”? Several months ago I was interviewed by Dave Schwartz of Music Academy Online. The hour-long interview was done in Second Life, a technology that gives humans animated avatars on-screen. The interviewed focused on the research I did on the famous harpsichordist, Wanda Landowska. We discussed my sources and how I […]