Product Description: The evidence is in: music is not just entertainment - it is medicine. Sub-titled Using the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit, this book unifies medicine, Eastern wisdom and the new science of sonic healing...read more

An introductory health text which addresses college students' questions and concerns regarding their mental and physical well-being. Sections cover finding the right balance; creating healthy and caring relationships; building healthy lifestyles; avoiding or overcoming harmful habits; preventing and

Product Description: The evidence is in: music is not just entertainment - it is medicine. Sub-titled Using the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit, this book unifies medicine, Eastern wisdom and the new science of sonic healing...read more

Product Description: While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditions. In the West, for almost two millennia, the roles of the healer and the musician have been strictly separated...read more

Keeping Mozart in Mind presents the latest scientific findings on the effects of music on reasoning and learning, and the real story behind the "Mozart effect" research. Since the original findings were presented in 1993, the "Mozart effect" phenomenon has been widely discussed in both the scientific community and the general media. It is based on the principal observation that study participants improved their scores on spatial-temporal tests after listening to one of Mozart's piano sonatas. Spatial-temporal agility is an important guide to mathematical ability and aptitude. That original study has prompted further interest in research to explore the relationship between music, intelligence, and learning.Now the co-discoverer of the "Mozart effect," Dr. Gordon Shaw, shows how music can help us understand how the brain works and how music may enhance how we think, reason, and create. In this landmark book, he includes key information about his original research, plus the latest findings about the effect of music from his own research and that of other scientists around the world. Keeping Mozart in Mind is written in a style that makes this information accessible to not only researchers and clinicians, but also educators and parents. The book is enhanced by a CD-ROM containing two distinct parts: 1) Featuring Allegro con spirito from Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu, courtesy of Sony ClassicalTM, which was used in Shaw's original reseach study, and 2) a demonstration of S.T.A.R.TM (Spatial-Temporal Animation Reasoning), an interactive software program that was used in combination with piano lessons in a recent study to help teach difficult math concepts to young children. Key Features* Part I gives the essential ideas of Dr. Shaw's theme that music can enhance our ability to think and reason* Part II contains the more technical aspects of how music enhances learning, made readable and accessible to everyone* Part III contains all the details of the dramatic behavior experiments that were performed with humans involving music* Part IV presents the results and proposed studies that are crucial to the detailed scientific understanding of what is happening in the brain* Part V presents the future of music as an influence upon higher brain function (view table of contents)

Product Description: This study integrates research findings on a range of topics that relate to the nature of musical experience. These include the relationship between music and brain function and the use of metaphor in musical understanding.

Product Description: This is a book on the therapeutic quality of music. Musicians, philosophers, music therapists, and others discuss their experiences. This interdisciplinary work is a tapestry of thought generated by music therapists, scholars, and performers in related fields such as anthropology, philosophy, music composition/performance, psychology, and musicology...read more

Product Description: Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music—but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and depend on the system of meaning of their cultural context...read more

Product Description: Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music—but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and depend on the system of meaning of their cultural context...read more

Tells how music can help develop one's creativity, self-esteem, and confidence, gives adults advice on selecting and learning to play an instrument, and discusses music therapy and music's effects on the emotions

Product Description: From Foreword, page 7: "Why do people write books? Many reasons, of course. In my case it is to put down chronologically the story of the phenomenon of the effect of music on plants and to clear up some misconceptions and misquotes which cannot help but happen when the various news media and publications excerpt from a long article about the report of my experiments...read more

Introduces the scientific study of the relationship of music to emotions and presents the results of two major experiments designed to relate mood changes to specific musical stimuli

Product Description: Book by Christianson, Helen M.