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The Healing Forces of Music
Randall McClellan
Element
1991
213 pages
Paper

This is the first comprehensive cross-cultural work in music as a healing and therapeutic experience. The book explores the shamanistic practices of musical cosmologies of the ancient world, the worlds of Eastern and Western classical forms, and contemporary resources. The author takes us into basic acoustics, the process of hearing, the vibratory nature of the human body. He presents a healing method through cymatics (the effects of vibration on physical matter), healing with color and sound, voice mantra, Tantric therapies, and the Chakra system.

Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics
Jonathan Goldman
Element
1991
176 pages
Paper

This is a book about the power of sound to affect us on all levels -- physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. It explains how we can use the healing and transformative power of sound to create balance and health in our lives. The concept of healing with music is probably as old as music itself. In ancient times, music was used as a sacred tool for stimulating growth of plants and crops, increasing fertility, and healing the sick. An ancient spiritual and shamanic technique for healing and communication with higher realms of consciousness, it is only in the last decade that these techniques reached the West. The author takes the reader on a step-by-step exploration of this fascinating subject and gives detailed instructions on vocal harmonics and practical exercises to enable the reader to use sound in healing and meditation.

Music Physician: For Times to Come
Don Campbell
Theosophical
1991
355 pages
Paper

The author has assembled the quintessential anthology of music as a catalyst in holistic medicine and healing. It is a unique guide to the use of sound and harmony in diverse cultures throughout history to achieve therapeutic results. Essays by leaders in the music field point the way toward new applications of music to transform mind, body, and spirit.

Sound Choices: Using Music to Design the Environments in Which You Live, Work, and Heal
Susan Mazer and Dallas Smith
Hay House
1999
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This book helps both design professionals and non-design professionals understand how use sound to create environments that function better in our homes, workplaces, and communities. Includes personal insights and history, as well as solid professional and experiential research. The power of music to heal and noise to nurt are clearly deliniated, accompanied by the authors' analysis, suggestions, and recommendations. Packaged with a CD-ROM that illustrates some of their concepts.