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Foundations of sound therapy
Abstract
In the practice of music therapy, the use of the sounds of a live naturally singing voice appears to be the most effective; in some cases, results are obtained whereas there are no results using musical sounds, and generally results are obtained in a much shorter time. Sounds and singing in just intonation are particularly efficient. This practice introduces to a deep understanding of sound therapy. Sketched here are the vocal soundbody relationship and the vocal sound consciousness relationship, which are relevant in this therapy. Finally clinical examples are given (coma states, loss of speech, old persons, states close to death, mind handicapped persons, depression, etc.). Bibliography I. Reznikoff: On Primitive Elements of Musical Meaning, www.musicandmeaning.net, Journal of Music and Meaning 3 (Invited papers), 2005.
... According to S. Dehaene [21], spatial perception (connected with the lobe parietal brain area) is necessary for number sense. At the same time, spatial perception is grounded in deep, already prenatal, sound consciousness [22]- [24], which is, as shown by Sound Therapy, connected with limbic hormonal areas of the brain. It is undoubtedly why post-puberty maturity is necessary for more complicated ways of reasoning where some gift of 'intuition' is needed. ...
The essential goal of e-learning research is an online curriculum for children with developmental disorders. The study verifies the hypothesis about the insensitivity of sensory perception to shared intentionality, measuring the ability of children to solve incomprehensible problems without any communication. The online experiments on developing numerical competence of children aged 12 months, 18 months, 28 months, 31 months, and 33 months show their unexpected ability to interact with mothers (excluding the youngest student), creating the bond between sounds of spoken numbers and the appropriate set of items. This insight in numerosity succeeded in children during the uplift of emotion-motion ongoing social dynamics in these dyads. We suppose that shared intentionality can emerge in individuals who are in social entrainment with similar biological rhythms. The triggers of this interpersonal psychophysiological coherence are the following factors dealing at the same moment: (i) a common goal; (ii) a supranormal environment that stimulates cognate emotional arousal; (iii) a single oscillator that induces the same sensorial experience for all participants. Shared intentionality creates links between sensing and social phenomena (familiar to mature organisms) in dyads, facilitating children's understanding during learning.
Maturation of fetal response to music was characterized over the last trimester of pregnancy using a 5-minute piano recording of Brahms' Lullaby, played at an average of 95, 100, 105 or 110 dB (A). Within 30 seconds of the onset of the music, the youngest fetuses (28-32 weeks GA) showed a heart rate increase limited to the two highest dB levels; over gestation, the threshold level decreased and a response shift from acceleration to deceleration was observed for the lower dB levels, indicating attention to the stimulus. Over 5 minutes of music, fetuses older than 33 weeks GA showed a sustained increase in heart rate; body movement changes occurred at 35 weeks GA. These findings suggest a change in processing of complex sounds at around 33 weeks GA, with responding limited to the acoustic properties of the signal in younger fetuses but attention playing a role in older fetuses.
Therapy of pure sound
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Reznikoff, I., On Primitive Elements of Musical
Meaning, www.musicandmeaning.net, Journal of
Music and Meaning 3 (Invited papers), (2005)