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Sound!
Make it Work Scholastic,
September 1995 by
Wendy Baker Click
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is a unique blend of imaginative activities, experiments,
and science facts helps develop scientific thought. It
mixes hobby and science, and teaches kids to observe,
collate information, and reach conclusions. It addreses
scientific principles through the hands-on process of
making science work.
Yoga
for Stuttering: Unifying the Voice, Breath, Mind &
Body to Achieve Fluent Speech North Atlantic Books, April,
2009 by J.M. Balakrishnan Click
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takes a fresh approach based on ancient methods. Author
J.M. Balakrishnan combines an understanding of the neurological
aspects of stuttering with yoga methods long used in India
for remediation to form a new, natural method for improving
vocal fluency. The book presents three related branches
of yoga and their accompanying practices, nada yoga (chanting
and vocalization), hatha yoga (yoga poses), and raja yoga
(guided meditations), providing the reader with sets of
voice, breathing, and physical exercises to help relax
the body and mind, relieve chronic tension, and achieve
fluent speech. The book features photos and illustrations
to make the method easy to follow, and no prior knowledge
of yoga is required. Yoga for Stuttering was created to
meet the needs of those who have not obtained relief through
traditional methods and is aimed at both speech pathologists
and individuals looking for a holistic, drug-free approach
to the condition.
Music
and Sound in the Healing Arts Tallman,
January 1987
by John Beaulieu, Ph.D. Click
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Richly illustrated with pictures, stories, and the author's
experience as composer and therapist, this book explores
the history and practice of healing sound from ancient
philosophies to the practical applications of therapy,
religion, and art: mantra, toning, voice evaluation, tuning
forks, and music listening. It also contains guidelines
and exercises for teaching and an evaluation of music
therapy today.
Rhythm
is the Cure, Southern Italian Tambourine Mel
Bay Publications, Inc.-February 19, 2007 by
Alessandra Belloni Click
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called a "Mediteranean Volcano" Alessandra Belloni
was an artist-in-residence at Saint John the Divine in
New York City. This book with DVD (111 min.) will introduce
the reader to the tambourine and folk dance tradition
of Southern Italy, the Tarantella. Students will learn
the techniques of Tarantella tambourine playing as well
as the history of this ancient tradition. This book reflects
25 years of field research and performance by the author,
Alessandra Belloni.
Music:
A Mathematical Offering Cambridge
University Press, December 2006
by Dave Benson Click
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the time of the Ancient Greeks, much has been written
about the relation between mathematics and music: from
harmony and number theory, to musical patterns and group
theory. Benson provides a wealth of information here to
enable the teacher, the student, or the interested amateur
to understand, at varying levels of technicality, the
real interplay between these two ancient disciplines.
The story is long as well as broad and involves physics,
biology, psychoacoustics, the history of science, and
digital technology as well as, of course, mathematics
and music. Starting with the structure of the human ear
and its relationship with Fourier analysis, the story
proceeds via the mathematics of musical instruments to
the ideas of consonance and dissonance, and then to scales
and temperaments. This is a must-have book if you want
to know about the music of the spheres, digital music,
and many things in between.
The
Healing Musician: A Guide to Playing Healing Music at
the Bedside New Grail Media, December,
1999 by Stella Benson Click
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to play live healing music to the ailing at the bedside
with empowerment. Learn how, by manipulating the three
major principles of music: rhythm, harmony and melody,
music can effect the body in five basic ways, both physiological
and psychological. This book illustrates what musical
instruments are appropriate. You will learn how to assess
the patients immediate needs and how to address them.
For the more advanced, simple modal theory (to play
contemplative chant) and nine examples from the three
traditional music strains are included, plus much more.
The World is Sound: Nada Brahma, Music and the Landscape
of Consciousness Inner Traditions
International Ltd., May 1991 by
Jaochim-Ernst Berendt Click
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is both exciting and fascinating. It addresses the subtle
and cosmic aspects of music, sound and the manifest universe.
All About Sound Scholastic.,
June 1994 by Melvin
Berger Click
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includes hands-on experiments and fascinating facts introduce
young readers to the world of sound.
The
Science of Music Harper
and Row, 1989 by Melvin
Berger Click
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is designed as a textbook for grades 5-9. It discusses
how the various musical instruments produce sound and
describes how records, tapes, and disks are made and how
the playback equipment for them generates sound waves.
Sounds Like Om: Universal Primeval Mantra Binkey
Kok, Holland, August 2006 by
Danny Becher, Dick De Ruiter, Marjolein Berkvens Click
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and CD set offers a unique way to learn about the Sri
Yantra symbol and the OM mantra, which has been used for
over 5,000 years by Eastern yogis to facilitate concentration
and meditation. With simple exercises and meditations,
the book offers insights to be put into practice instantly,
enhancing mental and physical health. The CD features
a variety of OM chanting sounds. Some tracks show how
to train the voice and breathing and others are made to
be internalized as a sound meditation on the intense tranquillity
and beauty of the OM mantra, which can only be experienced
in the here and now.
Gong Yoga: Healing and Enlightenment Through Sound iUniverse, May 2008 by
Mehtab Benton Click
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is a comprehensive book on practicing and teaching yoga
with the sound of the gong. You will learn about the origin,
history and use of the gong for yoga and meditation as
well as its current therapeutic applications for healing
and transformation. The book contains a step-by-step training
guide to teach yourself how to play the gong through a
series of practice sessions. You will learn the basic
techniques to play the gong effectively as well as more
adfanced techniques to create your own personalized gong
playing routines. You will also learn how to structure
yoga classes and individual practices using the gong as
well as how to develop gong yoga therapy sessions for
your students and professional clients.
Riding the Waves: A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry MIT Press, March 2008 by
Leo Beranek Click
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an Iowa farm boy who became a Renaissance man--scientist,
inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive,
philanthropist, and author--has lived life in constant
motion. His seventy-year career, through the most tumultuous
and transformative years of the last century, has always
been propelled by the sheer exhilaration of trying something
new.
In the 1970s, Beranek risked his life savings to secure
the license to operate a television station; he turned
Channel 5 in Boston into one of the country's best, then
sold it to Metromedia in 1982 for the highest price ever
paid up to that time for a broadcast station. "One
central lesson I've learned is the value of risk-taking
and of moving on when risks turn into busts or odds look
better elsewhere," Beranek writes. Riding the Waves
is a testament to the boldness, diligence, and intelligence
behind Beranek's lifetime of extraordinary achievement.
Why Music Moves Us Palgrave Macmillan, April 2009 by Jeanette Bicknell Click
Here to Order Surely you’ve experienced it
before: you’re listening to a piece of music and
all of a sudden you find a lump in your throat, a tear
in your eye, or a chill down your spine. Whether it's
Beethoven's Choral Symphony or the Verve's "Bittersweet
Symphony", a bit of blues or a bit of baroque, music
has the pwoer to move us. It's a language which we all
speak. But why does it have this effect onus? What is
going on, emotionally, physically and cognitively when
listeners have strong emotional responses to music? What,
if anything, does such responses mean? Can they tell us
anything about ourselves?
This book contains research in philosophy, psychology,
neuroscience, and anthropology to address these questions,
ultimately showing us that the reason why some music tends
to arouse powerful experiences in listeners is inseparable
from the reason why any music matters at all. Musical
experience is a social one, and that is fundatmental to
its attractions and power over us.
The Winds of Change: A Guided Journey with Healing Music
through Grief, Loss & Transformation
January 2003 by Marcia
Breitenbach Click
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book and CD combination provides inspiration and useful
tools for healing spirit, mind, body and heart. The author,
an expressive arts grief and loss therapist and musician,
has combined her expertise in the field of grief and loss
with 14 of her original healing songs to create a multi-dimensional
healing package.
Grace
Notes: Reflections on the Harp and Healing
Musical Reflections
Pr., June 2002
by Tami Briggs Click
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Notes is a book about Tami Briggs' most profound and deeply
spiritual experiences playing the harp at the hospital
and hospice bedside. Having facilitated and witnessed
hundreds of harp therapy "treatments," Tami's
anecdotal stories detail many dramatic accounts of using
harp music as a complementary care modality. An inspirational
journey into the world of comfort care, the book poignantly
tells of the harp's healing properties.
Music
and Your Mind: Listening with a New Consciousness Tallman Co., August, 1998 by Helen Bonny with Louis Savary Click
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updated and expanded edition offers step-by-step descriptions
of 25 music-listening experiences for individuals, groups,
music appreciation classes, and religious gatherings,
all designed to open new doors to creativity, insight,
and self-understanding.
Music
Consciousness: The Evolution of Guided Imagery and Music Barcelona Publishing, September 2002 by Helen Bonny Click
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published and unpublished writings and speeches of Helen
Lindquist Bonny. Included in the 22 chapters are: an
autobiographical essay, early articles on Bonny's work
at the Maryland Psychiatric Center and the founding
of the Institute for Consciousness and Music, Bonny's
three monographs on GIM, a sequence of articles showing
the evolution of GIM, an extensive unpublished case
study from Bonny's dissertation, and Bonny's more recent
writings on the analysis of music programs, and music
and spirituality.
Hands
of Light Bantam, September
1988 by Barbara Brennan Click
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the clarity of a physicist and the compassion of a gifted
healer with fifteen years of professional experience observing
5,000 clients and students, Barbara Ann Brennan presents
the first in-depth study of the human energy field for
people who seek happiness, health and their full potential.
Our physical bodies exist within a larger "body,"
a human energy field or aura, which is the vehicle through
which we crete our experience of reality, including health
and illness. It is through this energy field that we have
the power to heal ourselves.
Light
Emerging Bantam, November
1993 by Barbara Brennan Click
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Brennan instructs on how to work with the "human
energy field," which involves the seven chakras and
the aura, to cure various physical and emotional problems.
Readers searching for ways of healing that go beyond the
orthodox will be best able to use this book and because
Brennan's discussion is long and involved, at once fascinating
and confusing, it may well attract the most devoted anyway.
Despite a nod from Bernie Siegel, and evidence throughout
that Brennan's methods can be effective, discussions of
how people "grow cords" that obstruct relationships
or why you should soak used jewelry in saltwater to destroy
negative energy are sure to have skeptics shaking their
heads. Brennan is not only a therapist and healer, but
also a former research scientist for NASA, which would
seem to lend her credibility.
Following
Sound Into Silence Hay House,
Febroary 2008 by Kurt
(Kailash) A. Bruder Click
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(Kurt A. Bruder, Ph.D., M.Ed.) urges us to take up chanting
as an authentic and effective spiritual practice. Although
this is an ancient spiritual tool, it’s well suited
to our contemporary lifestyle. No generation before us
has had to contend with the onslaught of voices clamoring
for our attention, the chaos of distractions vying for
our imagination and allegiance, or the flood of information
that is our daily lot. Kailash shows how chanting—both
alone and with others—can quiet and stabilize our
mind, expand our heart, elevate our emotion, and reduce
our self-centeredness . . . yielding a direct, sustained
experience of the Divine.
Case
Studies in Music Therapy Barcelona
Publishing, October,1991 by
Ken Bruscia Click
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book is a great resource for anyone with an interest in
music therapy. The introduction itself is probably the
best and most concise description of music therapy practice.
The case studies have been chosen for quality, depth,
and maximum variety of technique and philosophy. One appendix
contains an index which refers to the case studies by
philosophical orientation, which are fascinating and useful.
In all, a great reference and a fascinating, enlightening
read.
Defining
Music Therapy Barcelona
Publishing, June, 1998 by
Ken Bruscia Click
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and therapy are both difficult to define, and when fused
together, many complications arise. This book examines
the unique problems of defining music within a therapeutic
context, and defining therapy within a musical context.
In this greatly expanded second edition, 67 definitions
of music therapy and over 380 references are considered;
separate chapters are given on each term used in the central
definition; entirely new chapters are presented on music,
health, dynamics, methods, theory and research; and a
comprehensive survey is made of the many different areas
and levels of music therapy practice.
Dynamics
of Music Psychotherapy Barcelona Publishing, June,
1998 by Ken Bruscia Click
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After an introduction to the dynamics and methodology
of music psychotherapy, the book provides in-depth analyses
of transference and countertransference as they are manifested
in various approaches to using improvisation, songs, and
music imagery. The chapters are both theoretical and clinical
including perspectives of both therapist and client. Aside
from being a first in music therapy, this book extends
the horizons of psychodynamic theory to include musical
phenomena.
Improvisational
Models of Music Therapy Charles
Thomas Publishing, 1987 by
Ken Bruscia Click
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Major models of improvisational music therapy are described
in terms of clinical applications, goals, session formats,
media selection, and methodological
procedures. Details are given on procedural steps or cycles
that occur within a typical session in each model. Two
prototypes for improvisatory sessions are
identified, and procedural objectives found in most models
of improvisational music therapy are summarized.
Healing
Imagery & Music: Pathways To The Inner Self Sterling Books, 1999 by Carol Bush Click
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With a 60-minute companion CD of classical music! If music
be the food of health, play on! The Bonny Method of Guided
Imagery, an innovative program of music therapy, uses
the harmonies and melodies of classical masterworks to
unlock inner stresses and explore the most deeply embedded
areas of the psyche. It is a truly profound strategy for
personal transformation. Listen to the beautiful music
on the companion disk while completing guided imagery
exercises--and you will take a journey into your inner
self.
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Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
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