Mythologically all living and non-living things are reported to have resounded to music. Today’s modern science too endorses such a view. High intensity sound waves are used in diagnosis and treatment. In recent years, application of music as a complementary medicine has gained grounds in the advanced countries, especially in Netherlands, USA, Australia, and Japan apart from the […]
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While music is well organized for its entertainment value throughout the globe, it was the Indian genius who had discovered Raga Chikitsa, raga cure. A raga is a sequence of selected notes that lands ‘colour’ or emotion. Depending on its nature, a raga can induce or intensify joy or sorrow, anger or peacefulness. Great legends too confirm. The remedial role
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Evidence suggests that exercise causes positive changes in the nervous system in human beings and these changes may have a direct impact on the cognitive ability. Listening to music too, like exercise, may influence cognitive functions to different pathways in the brain. The combination of exercise and music can, therefore; be an ideal intervention for
From very ancient times, civilizations all over the world in general and in India, in particular, have recognized the significance of sound in human life. What is popularly referred to as Nada. Yoga forms a body of intuitive concepts and esoteric practices exploiting sound, the ‘struck’ or material sound referred to as ahata and the ‘unstruct’ or non-material sound anahata. Recent experiments in
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Ancient traditions in India view sound intonation (nada) as an important principle of existence. Nada is considered as the non-material source of all matter. It is also viewed as the ‘thread like’ link between one’s material and spiritual realms – a key by which one can become free from the worldly bondage. Mantra, which is believed to be sculpted with appropriate intonation, needs to
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Music is a sound organized in an aesthetic sense. Thanks to the involvement of the mind, we are able to distinguish music from noise, though both of them stem from sound waves. In other words, it is the mind that makes a sound, music. The human mind attributes a sense of meaning to the sound heard. For Hegel, the
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In recent years, using music as a complementary medicine has gained grounds in countries like the Netherlands, USA, Australia, Japan and also Argentina, Brazil, China, and India. Indian music, known for its raga, often referred to as ‘Miracle of microtones’’; shows great potential for research, which is quite promising. While music is universally beneficial, as plants
Consciously or unconsciously, everybody responds to music. The lilt, rhythm, gait or speed in music has the power to waft away our sorrow, disappointments or depressions. Hegel, the German philosopher, had once observed that music alone is capable of expressing many nuances of emotion, and hence it is more useful than any language invented so
‘The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper’ – Eden Phillpots. Music is a unique experience for all of us. Unless one’s hearing in impaired, anybody can listen to it and appreciate its beauty. Though, like noise, music also stems from the same source, namely, sound, it stands
The most ancient and primitive human societies across the world had recognized the power of sound vibrations as they affect our minds and moods. The great system of Nada Yoga, once popular in India, works on the premise that the entire universe around us and we are made of nada, sound vibrations. In other words,
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As note is not swara, melody is not raga. At the most, melody is a loose arrangement of single notes. Raga, on the other hand, is a tighter fusion of swaras, making it a ‘total sound’ or a ‘tonal complex’. The individuality of notes in a range is totally merged to assume a totally different
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Nature has thrown open a treasure house of rhythms and melodies in and around us, but we seem to be mostly unaware of them due to our preoccupation with the modern-day activities. Our body and mind are blessed with healthy resonance and rhythms, without which we would have long been dead and gone, the disharmony
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Music is an intrinsic part of every one of us, irrespective of the fact whether we are singers or listeners. Pulse and rhythmic patterns found in our heart beat, in our breathing, in our thought processes, in our locomotion, in various physiological processes – including digestion, elimination or sleep are the basic indicators of the
An interactive workshop with music and visuals was held on 29th June, 2002 at the Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi. It was conceived, designed, coordinated and presented by the well-known author and musicologist Dr. T. V. Sairam who was trained under Sangeetha Vidwan Sri S. V. Ramani. The workshop was attended by famous musicians, popular artists
“If music be the food of love, play on…” – William Shakesphere Music is an intrinsic part of each one of us – regardless of what we are – singers or listeners. To quote Kabir, “Nada is music which plays in the body without strings.” Rhythm is the first organizing structure in an infant’s experience.
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The most ancient and primitive human societies across the world had recognized the power of sound vibrations as they affect the minds and the moods. The great system of Nada Yoga, once popular in India works on the premise that the entire universe around us, and we ourselves, are made of nada, sound vibrations. In
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Yoga and music are the two beautiful things that could have ever happened to mankind. “Without music”, insists Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘life would have been a mistake’. Any sadhaka would agree with me that without them, the human being would have remained yet another animal on this planet! The reason behind this is the human brain
The Indian Music Therapy Association(IMTA) in collaboration with the Nada Centre For Music Therapy, Chennai are conducting the 4th annual conference from 03.Dec to 05.Dec.2021. The conference is being held online. For registration, kindly email your particulars to [email protected] before 15.Oct.2021.
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