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April 16, 2007
Kamal
2001
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“Whale Dreaming”
“Pacific Peace”
“Song of the Deep”

Australian music composer Kamal duets with the mysterious and resonant sounds of the humpback whales for Reiki Whale Song, an album specifically designed to correspond to techniques of the ancient healing art of reiki. Kamal’s soft and unobtrusive synthesizer washes forge [...]

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April 30, 2007Djangology2002

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“Beyond the Sea (La Mer)”
“Minor Swing”
“Improvisation On Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique (Andante)”

Recorded in post-WWII Italy, Djangology is one of the simplest displays of the great jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt’s genius. Though five musicians are featured on the record, the solos come almost exclusively from Reinhardt and former band-partner [...]

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American Music Therapy Association, Inc.
Music Therapy Makes a Difference
The mission of the American Music Therapy Association is to advance public awareness of the benefits of music therapy and increase access to quality music therapy services in a rapidly changing world.

What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is an established healthcare profession that uses music to address [...]

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Research and Training Center Bridges and Bottomlines Practice-Based Research Syntheses and Summaries
Sponsored by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative ServicesUS Dept of Education©2006 The Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute.RTC Privacy Policy .
Volume 1 (2003)

Effectiveness of dolphin-assisted therapy as a behavioral intervention for young children with disabilitiesTracy L. Masiello, Ph.D.Bridges, Volume 1, Number 1 Magical fun, [...]

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Integrating Music, Language and the Voice in Music Therapy
By Joanne Loewy |Author bio & contact info|
[Editorial note: Audio excerpts (a), (b), (d), and (e) has been previously published in: Loewy, Joanne (1995). Musical stages of speech, Audio excerpts #1, #4, #6, and #7 Music Therapy, vol 13(1). Retrieved from Music Therapy Research, CD-ROM I, [...]

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Wings Learning Center Music Therapy
Resources: Interventions
Defining Music Therapy
Due to its unique characteristics when compared with spoken language or the visual modality, music is an effective tool to mediate change in non-musical functioning for certain individuals. Research supports parallels between speech/singing, rhythm/motor behavior, memory for song/memory for academic material, and overall ability of preferred music to [...]

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Friday, March 24, 2006
By Dan Majors, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Annie O’Neill, Post-Gazette
Music therapist Debbie Benkovitz soothes 13-month-old Ryne DeArmitt with some Bach during a recent visit to the intermediate intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital.The child is surrounded by balloons, toys and stuffed animals from home, but she is lying in a bed that is not hers, [...]

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n’ as in “n’Jacko” / ‘k as in “Mieke”
nah, mah, lahmama, nana, lullaby sound of “lalah”female, mother, yang, the feminine love-spirit “anima”

pah, tah, kah papa, baba wordsmale, father, yang, the masculine life-spirit of “animus”

‘hah’ – as in breath, laughterpassive, formless spirit, chi

The drum consists of the skin + hollow body

drum beat on the skin, based on [...]

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April 10, 2007Ayub Ogada
1993
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“Obiero”
“Kronkronhinko”
“Thum Nyatiti”
Ayub Ogada was discovered in the United Kingdom, performing music on the street. His path to that point began in Mombasa, Kenya, where he was born to professional musicians of the Luo ethnic group. As a child he traveled the U.S. college circuit [...]

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April 19, 2007After Midnight
1957
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“Just You, Just Me”
“The Lonely One”
“I Know That You Know”
There’s no mistaking Nat King Cole’s voice for anyone else’s. Smooth and rich, with every syllable perfectly enunciated and just behind the beat, his vibrato glows perpetually like the embers of a wintertime hearth. Even [...]

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