A Comprehensive Guide to Music Therapy: Theory, Clinical Practice, Research ...

By Lars Ole Bonde, Tony Wigram

-Music has been a medium of therapy for centuries, and there are numerous examples of the
curative or healing powers of music in historical records of different cultures.

-Now accepted as a discipline alosongside physiotherapy, occupationa therapy, speech therapy etc.

-Since antiquity, music has been used as a therauputic tool, and ancient healing rituas including
sound and music have survived in many cultures (Gouk 2000).

-Pythagoras discovered that music is based on the laws of nature. However he went one step
further. The human mind is capable of perceiving the (lawful) vibrations and tone proprtions as
musical notes and intervals. In Pythagorean thought, nots and intervals are also reflections of a
cosmic, spiritual level. This level is inaudible, but a human being can reflect or meditate on the
universal principles, which are followed by the celestial bodies. According to Pythagoreans, the
planets vibrate in the same frequencies and proportions as audible music. This is the music of the
spheres. The organized order of musical notes is a microcosmic reflection of macrocosmic order,
including everything in the universe -body, mind and spirit.

-Core idea of classical musicology but also classic medical knowledge, university education from
antiquity to the renaissance.

-Man was considered a musical instrument, which could be out of tune or finely tuned
indicating that the harmonic proportions of music also permeate the physical body.

-Ficino regarded the soul as mediator between body and mind, promoting a harmonic relationship
between indivual person and the world soul (the mediator of heaven and earth).

The Story of Music

By Howard Goodall

-The considerable body of art left to posterity b the Ancient Egyptians, for instance, shows us that by
their time (3100-670 BC), the playing of music was closely associated with the exercise of power and
homage, with religious and secular rituals, and with state ceremony, dancing, love and death.

A Companion to Federico Garca Lorca

edited by Federico Bonaddio

-In Lorcass view, the duende a popular Spanish expression for an impish household spirit and for a
mesmerizing inexplicable sort of charm- is a mysterious chthonic force responsible for not only for
inspired creation but also for the successful transmission and comprehension of works of arts. Found
most frequently among bullfighters, dancers and flamenco artists, the duende thrives on liver
performance, preferring spontaneity and instinct to calculated style and form. Irrational, diabolic,
nature, its deep connection with the earth and an intense awareness of death.