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Subject: Music Therapy on NPR - worth a listen From: katlaughing Date: 30 Jun 02 - 11:09 AM I heard part of this, yesterday. Will be listening to it in its entirety in a few minutes. Thought some of you might like to, too. If you scroll down on this page you will see a small icon next to "Music Therapy" which, if you click on it, will play the program. Here is is a list of participants: Guests: "Connie Tomaino * Director and Vice President for Music Therapy Services, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function * Beth Abraham Health Services * Bronx, New York Maria Logis * Management Consultant * Con Edison * Improvisational artist, singer, and song-writer * New York, New York William Benzon * Cognitive scientist * Author, Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture (Basic Books, 2001) * Jersey City, New Jersey Dr. Oliver Sacks * Clinical Professor of Neurology * Albert Einstein College of Medicine * Scientific Advisor, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function * Beth Abraham Health Services * Author, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Touchstone Books, 1998), Awakenings (Vintage, 1999), and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Knopf, 2001) * New York, New York "Music therapy programs are popping up in hospitals and treatment centers around the country. But what do we actually know about the health benefits of music or how music is processed by our brains? In this hour, we'll talk with patients, doctors, and scientists about the research and practice of music therapy." kat |
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Subject: RE: Music Therapy on NPR - worth a listen From: CapriUni Date: 30 Jun 02 - 11:14 AM Thanks for the link, Kat! I was planning on listening to that, and then forgot completely... Will go listen now, and then be back to discuss |
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Subject: RE: Music Therapy on NPR - worth a listen From: CapriUni Date: 30 Jun 02 - 05:04 PM Well, I listened to this piece, and I enjoyed it, but if I had listened live, I might have called in and asked about whether music was ever studied in therapy that is closer to the physical end of the spectrum... the focus during this hour seemed to be more on cognitive and emotional therapy. But I couldn't help thinking of the popularity of aerobic jazz-ercize classes, and the like...
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Subject: RE: Music Therapy on NPR - worth a listen From: katlaughing Date: 30 Jun 02 - 10:26 PM Thanks, Capri-Uni...I found it fascinating about the cognitive, etc. thinking about some of the patients Night Owl has worked with whom she mentioned in the original Music Therapy threads. |
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Subject: RE: Music Therapy on NPR - worth a listen From: CapriUni Date: 01 Jul 02 - 12:00 AM I'll have to check that out... Don't know if you know this or not, but I have Cerebral Palsy, and since the age of 8 my therapy of choice has been Therapeutic horseback riding, and/or hippotherapy. (Both use horses; the first places greater emphasis on learn the skill of riding in a way that happens to be therapeutic, the second is more traditional type physical therapy exercizes that happen to be done on the back of a horse, often while the horse is moving). Anyhoo, sometimes we ride to music (choreographed dressage to music is an Olympic sport), and the horses seem to have as much fun with the music as the people do -- naturally matching their gait to the rhythm of what is being played... So I'm not sure I agree with what Oliver Sacks said about music apreciation being unique to humans, even if horses don't produce music in a form that we recognize. |
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Subject: RE: Music Therapy on NPR - worth a listen From: katlaughing Date: 01 Jul 02 - 09:30 AM Oh, I totally agree with you on that. Just as plants have been proven to respond to music, so do animals. I see it everyday with my own pets. Thank you for sharing that. I did know about the CP, but not about the horse therapy. I've seen programs about it, but never known someone who experiences it. I believe horses to be therapeutic regardless, both physically and otherwise. Nothing makes my lower back feel better then to get up on a horse and ride...something I haven't had the chance to do in years! I'll refresh the other MT threads. Thanks, again, kat |
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Subject: RE: Music Therapy on NPR - worth a listen From: CapriUni Date: 03 Jul 02 - 11:15 PM I believe horses to be therapeutic regardless, both physically and otherwise. Oh, absolutely! And I'd say they're even more innately musical than humans are, at least on a physical level, even if they don't play the banjo or the fiddle (though you couldn't string your bow without horses! ;-)). If you want a through-the-body lesson on the difference between 4/4 time, 2/4 time, and 3/4 time, just ride a horse at the walk, trot and canter... And that's the neat thing about horse therapy: the movement of the horse's back at the walk matches perfectly the movement of a normal gait of a human's hips at the walk (the left-right/up-down movement), something that simply cannot be reproduced with any other form of technology or method... (unfortunately, it's still seen as radically "alternative" and so is not covered by insurance, even though its benefits have been widely documented around the world. I guess working with animals is seen as just too warm and fuzzy to be 'real') It helps a rider like me (who's never walked normally), learn through the body what normal balance feels like while movingand have the body respond to that, so that muscles that need to strengthen get stronger, and those that need to relax, relax. It also helps those who used to be able to walk but lost the ability (such as through stroke or polio). My first riding instructor was also fond of getting us to sing while we rode, mostly, I think, to insure we weren't holding our breaths and tensing up, but there may have been some gut knowledge that the act of singing itself was therapeutic... |
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Subject: RE: Music Therapy on NPR - worth a listen From: katlaughing Date: 04 Jul 02 - 12:09 AM Thanks for sharing that, CU! It feels great to those of us who have walked, too, meaning no disrespect. It is wonderful that these creatures can afford you the experience of that kind of balance, etc., too. You know my dad rode a horse before he was old enough to walk. He often jokes about how he was an adult before he realised he could walk to the barn, let alone anywhere else, instead of ride a horse! kat |
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