Nature of Music
Beauty, Sound and Healing
Maureen McCarthy Draper - Author
ISBN 9781573228985 | 240 pages | 01 Nov 2001 | Riverhead | 5.51 x 7.91in | Adult
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An important book that answers how music affects your mood and how music affects your brain Music has a profound influence on our lives; affecting how we think, how we act, how we feel-even who we are. By learning more about the intimate relationship between music and ourselves, we can begin to harness that power and better our lives. A classical pianist, Draper writes about the ways in which the great works of the classical canon can help us cope with grief, give dimension to the mysteries of beauty and faith, aid us in recovery from illness, inspire us to create, or just give us a boost of energy. This unique guide includes an extensive music bibliography with selections to suit moods, calm nerves, inspire, and heal. Anyone from the novice to the aficionado will find new ways to hear music as they never have before. One: The Heart of Listening Music and the Arts The Language of Music Listening to Music, Listening to Yourself The Physical Power of Music
Two: Hearing the Design
Three: The Education of Feeling
Four: When You Are the Music
Five: Singing Your Own Song
Six: The Alchemy of Music
Seven: The Healing Power of Music
Eight: Dreaming and Dancing
Nine: The Inner Garden
Sound Journey: A Listening Bibliography “A lovely, lyrical, elegantly useful guide for all of us, healthy or ill, who want to reap full benefit from the wonderful world of music.”—Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D., Chief, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center “Mystics say that we are music, and poems are rough notations for that music. This book will send you back to the music you love.”—Coleman Barks, poet and translator of The Essential Rumi |
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