On Music and Healing

Music acts on both mind and body. To know how music works implies crossing the mind-body barrier, opening up a window on the mind-body problem. We shall, in the following, give some details of our work with the language of music that is, in fact, opening up such a window. (Clynes 1985 a, b, 1983, 1977, 1973, 1969.) This will permit us also to obtain a view of how healing can be helped by music (and by sentie cycles, a new metamusic that can release emotion, as music and musical improvisation can, without the need for musical skill and aptitude).

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