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Indian music is emotional and intellectual. The unique merger of swaras and their partials and mathematically precise Laya and Tala systems, land the music its intuitive as well as intellectual flavour respectively. It is a well-known fact that Indian classical music attaches great importance to serenity and a thoughtful state of mind as its primary

Emotions play an important role in our music application.  It is the emotion in music which makes it attractive and habit forming for the listeners.  The emotions in music are also known to heal its listeners from their various mental problems and deficiencies for centuries.  Right from the day of Plato, music is known for

Music has been closely linked with human activities from the stone age when man used to wander aimlessly to feed himself and to fulfil his bodily needs like a smart animal. Smart because he knew how fire could be produced and how to communicate with claps, vocalizations, toning and even making noise and sounds to

“A Jazz musician juggles with harmonies”  – Benny Green Recent years have witnessed an explosion of scientific, evidence-based research on music therapy. The power of music as a healing treatment for a broad scope of physical and mental conditions which includes AIDS, cancer, comas, multiple sclerosis, senile dementia and children with developmental disabilities is drawing

Music Therapy is an established health therapy, in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals, which are often categorized as its non-musical goals. The beauty of music therapy lies in its impact that helps people in coping with physical, mental, emotional and social inadequacies

Music is not merely a source of entertainment, but like vitamins, can do a world of good to our body and heart.  All musical activities use the whole brain, report modern neurologists. Music is intrinsic to all cultures and nations, helpful for learning languages, enhancing memory, and sharpening one’s attention or attentiveness.  It is also

`Indianness’ in Musical Experience  Indian music experience is highly emotional and at the same time very precise and analytical – a similarity with the way the human brain is structured in its two hemispheres, left and right. It is emotionally charged, as it touches the subtlest of nuances in our emotional experience, with the deployment

Recent advances in music therapy, which is based on an interpersonal process by a skilled music therapist, using all facets of sound and music to help his clients maintain or improve, their health has now come to stay in medical discipline, as an inseparable field of intervention. Coupled with this objective, it also helps the

In recent years, music therapy is emerging as a wonder tool in the hands of medical practitioners and counsellors, as a dependable intervention especially for those who suffer from mental diseases and problems, which are threatening the very social fibre of the human race. Music therapy is fast emerging -both in the East and the

“Music is capable of amazing journey and meanings” – Sir Harrison Birtwistle, British Composer The current state of music presents a variety of solutions in search of a problem, the problem being to find somebody left to listen!’  It has been recognized for a long time that music has beneficial effects on living beings. A

“Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of tile.” – R.K.S. lyengar  In recent years, Music Therapy is emerging as a wonder tool in the hands of medical practitioners and counsellors as a dependable intervention, especially for those who suffer

Recent advances in music therapy, which is based on an interpersonal process between a skilled music therapist that uses all facets of sound and music to help her/his clients to maintain or improve their health, have now come to stay in medical discipline as an inseparable field of intervention. Coupled with this objective, it also

Long before acoustics came to be known in Europe, the ancient Arabs, Greek and Indians were familiar with the therapeutic effects of music. They were already familiar with some of the latter day concepts pertaining to the phenomenon of sound.  While music as a whole is well recognised for its entertainment value throughout the globe,

It is now a scientifically acknowledged fact that sound and music have a major influence on our mind and behaviour. Of late, there is a growing realization that a person can develop auditory, visual, motor, communication, social, academic (cognitive), and self-help skills through music activities. Soft lullabies sung by the mother soothe infants, national anthems

“An expert musicologist may not understand what he hears, despite his skilled descriptions. The decisive fact is the experience itself.” — R. Scruton. In Sanskrit, the mind is known as manas. It is often compared to the ocean, thanks to its spread and depth. As the mind gets wafted by the winds of desires, it