"Music is a moral light. It gives soul to our hearts, wings to the thoughts,
A development imagination, it is an ode to sadness, gaiety to life,
to all things . It is an essence of time and rises in all forms invisible.,
dazzling and passionate eternal. "
( Plato, Symposium)
Populations of the past were perceived, felt, sensed that the sound had an energy present throughout the universe, able to influence at many levels, from the physical to the mental, emotional, spiritual. The music moves us because we move in a musical way: our actions are connected in rhythmic sequences that can be read as a harmonious narrative. Humans are sensitive to the power of music as a universal phenomenon existing in all of us: the music exists in all cultures.
Origins and history of music therapy.
Strait is the connection between music and medicine. The man, from its origins, knows the power of sound and music on the behavior and physiology of living beings. At the beginning of mankind music and medicine were only one dimension, the healing, the first human civilizations, to the Egyptian medicine, passed through the phenomenon of the spell: a union of sound and rhythm drugs.
In India created the first concepts for music therapy, either according to Indian healers there is no separation between man and the universe, but there is a functional relationship between human health and life and the universe. The balance could be altered by disease restored through external action rebalancing, the music "orderly" is one of them. Music in ancient Greece was considered a great way to integrate the dynamics of communication in a team uniform and therefore very useful to promote peace and order within the city state. For the greek philosopher Aristotle music has the ability to improve morale, has a liberating power, relieving stress and mental catharsis.
Even Pythagoras sound has enormous power, the music, in fact, according the philosopher, is to enlarge or change the mood of profound individual enabling greater self-acceptance and greater use of their abilities and possibilities. The first book of music therapy from the first half of 1700 by a London doctor musician RICHARD BROCKIESBY . He was one of the first physicians to understand the need for specialized knowledge of musical science to apply it successfully in the treatment of certain mental disorders.
In the centuries following observations about the powers of sound and music on the mind and the body also multiply. You begin to discover the relationship between body rhythms and musical rhythms, including pulse and musical beats, including breathing rate and rhythm of music. This is the basis of modern studies of music therapy that is different from the old one because it is no longer based on empirical knowledge or rituals but studies scientifically testable, this sottointende clinical experience, chemical and biological series.
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