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On Music and Healing

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Musik in der Medizin / Music in Medicine

Abstract

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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Clynes, M. (1987). On Music and Healing. In: Spintge, R., Droh, R. (eds) Musik in der Medizin / Music in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71697-3_3

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