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9781843107712

The Music Effect: Music Physiology And Clinical Applications

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  • Edition: 1st
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  • Copyright: 2005-06-01
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY
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Summary

Music is well known to have a significant effect on physiology and is widely used as an effective therapeutic tool in stress and pain management, rehabilitation, and behavior modification, but its effects are not well understood.

Author Biography

Daniel J. Schneck is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Society Dorita S. Berger is a concert pianist, an educator and a Board Certified music therapist. She is an international lecturer and consultant on music in human adaptation and its application in music therapy

Table of Contents

Foreword by George D. Patrick, Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, Bethesda, MD 11(2)
Prelude 13(4)
Chapter 1: Introduction 17(10)
Back to basics
17(1)
Sensory information-processing intended to maintain the internal environment of the body
18(1)
The paradigm
19(3)
Why music?
22(5)
Chapter 2: What Is This Thing Called "Music"? 27(11)
Introduction
27(1)
Putting music in proper perspective
28(3)
A definition of music
31(2)
Levels of organization of the controlled "music system"
33(2)
Sonic energy and the body
35(3)
Chapter 3: Principles of Physics and the Elements of Music 38(23)
Introduction
38(1)
Energy and the physics of reality
39(2)
Energy vibrates
41(4)
Recurring events as the essence of all reality
45(3)
Further quantification of energy
48(5)
'Forcing' the issue
53(4)
Conversion of sensory inputs into digitized information
57(2)
Energy as a life force
59(2)
Chapter 4: Principles of Physiology and the Elements of Sensory Information-processing 61(29)
Introduction
61(2)
Attributes of living systems
63(6)
Feedback control paradigm for the physiological processing of sensory information
69(11)
Gestalt laws governing the perceptual organization of sensory information
80(2)
Limitations to the processing of sensory information
82(4)
Hierarchy of information-processing channels in the CNS
86(4)
Chapter 5: Fear and the Instinct for Survival: What Happens When the Set-points Go Awry? 90(27)
Introduction
90(3)
What is different and what is the same?
93(5)
Fundamental human drives and the physiology of fear
98(1)
The physiological response to stress
99(4)
Physiological accommodation
103(6)
Caught in the fear spiral
109(5)
To change, or not to change?
114(1)
The role of music therapy
115(2)
Chapter 6: Physiological Entrainment 117(21)
Introduction
117(2)
Entrainment through the nervous system
119(3)
Entrainment through stimulation or inhibition of genetic material
122(5)
Entrainment through biochemical catalysis
127(2)
Entrainment through biasing of information-processing networks
129(4)
Entrainment through transport and utilization of energy
133(3)
Music as therapeutic, or music as therapy?
136(2)
Chapter 7: Rhythm in Music and Physiology 138(22)
Introduction
138(1)
What is this thing called "rhythm"?
138(4)
The three P's of rhythm
142(16)
Summary
158(2)
Chapter 8: Melody: The Pitch of Human Emotion 160(30)
Introduction
160(2)
What is this thing called 'melody"?
162(2)
Pitch: the music ladder
164(1)
Pitch and the act of hearing
165(6)
Prosody, phrase, and profile
171(2)
Perception of melody
173(3)
Synesthesia: hearing, seeing, tasting, and feeling sound
176(2)
Auditory scanning and tracking
178(3)
Melody in therapy
181(6)
Cross-sensory processing of pitch and melody: clinical considerations
187(3)
Chapter 9: Timbre, Harmony, and Dynamics: Adding Richness and Depth to Rhythm and Melody 190(31)
Introduction
190(2)
Timbre: the texture of a note
192(8)
Timbre and the voice
200(4)
Sound perceived: timbre interpreted
204(3)
Harmony: general considerations
207(2)
Harmony: changing moods and changing colors
209(5)
Harmony: dimensional hearing and auditory figure—ground
214(2)
Dynamics: expression of attitudes and emotions
216(5)
Chapter 10: Form: Creating Aesthetic Wholeness 221(19)
Introduction
221(2)
Making the whole greater than its parts
223(6)
Music elements in form and therapy
229(11)
Chapter 11: Nature Expressed Through Nurture 240(10)
Introduction
240(1)
General relationships of the human being to music
241(3)
The nature/nurture relationship in clinical settings
244(3)
Putting it all together: some final thoughts
247(3)
Chapter 12: Coda: Where Are They Now? 250(8)
REFERENCES 258(5)
SUBJECT INDEX 263(9)
AUTHOR INDEX 272

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