The Music Effect: Music Physiology And Clinical Applications

by Schneck, Daniel J.

• ISBN13: 9781843107712
• ISBN10: 1843107716
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY

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