Melinda
specializes in therapeutic music as a Certified Music
Practitioner (CMP), offering live harp and vocal music
for the ill or dying in nursing homes, hospitals, hospices
and in the home. She also brings her training as a holistic
nurse and healer, and can integrate a music session with
Therapeutic Touch and Flower Essences if desired and appropriate.
Melinda uses various types of harps: the ancient Gaelic,
or wire-strung harp of Scotland and Ireland, a small Gothic
harp or a large, resonant lever harp, depending on the
needs of the patient..
Therapeutic music can diminish stress and pain, aiding
sleep and restoring balance, harmony and peacefulness.
Examples of situations where Melinda's music has been
helpful are: pre and post-surgery, birthing, drug-infusion,
ICU/CCU, Alzheimer's and dementia and for hospice and
palliative care patients.
MUSICIAN
Melinda
provides vocal and harp music for weddings, parties, special
ceremonies and celebrations, retreats and events in the
Albany, NY/Berkshire MA/Hudson Valley of NY area. Melinda
is a cantor and liturgical musician, and a co-creator
of retreats featuring Cenering Prayer and Taize sung-prayer
with Bruce Gardiner.
AUTHOR
Shadows
of the Living Light:
Songs of Saint Hildegard of Bingen
This
book was written by Melinda Gardiner, RN, CMP and Mona
Peck, CMP and published by Nada Publications, 2006. It
includes six songs of St. Hildegard presented in the Gregorian
notation and modern music notation for easy comparison
and study.
The book includes general performance notes and song-specific
performance notes, chord indications, an arrangement for
harp or keyboard of the song, "O Pastor Animarum",
indications for therapeutic use, English translations,
a short biography of St. Hildegard with relevant quotes
from Hildegard herself and vairous authors who have written
about her, as well as a bibliography and discography for
further study.
38 spiral-bound pages, $23, which includes postage and
handling. Make check payable to Melinda Gardiner and mail
to the address listed above.
RESEARCHER
EDUCATOR
Music for Healing and Transition Program
Melinda is a faculty member with the Music for Healing & Transition Program, Inc., an organization that educates musicians and healthcare providers at 15 sites in the United States in the art and science of providing live therapeutic music at the bedside to facilitate healing. Melinda is also a teacher of Therapeutic Touch (Krieger-Kunz method), a commissioned teacher of Centering Prayer, and an instructor in the Art of using ceremony and ritual in daily life.
OTHER
Executive Director
Melinda is the Executive Director of the Music for Healing & Transition Program, Inc., a national not-for-profit educational organization, training musicians to provide therapeutic music at the bedside.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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