Certain types of music can enhance intellectual and spiritual powers and help overcome insomnia, boredom, anger, and stress. Music therapist and teacher Hal Lingerman presents a wealth of resources for choosing just the right music for physical, emotional and spiritual growth and healing. This updated edition offers comprehensive listings of current recordings, including new and remastered CDs, with selections from the classics, contemporary and ethnic compositions, and music composed by and for women. It includes expanded chapters on Women's Music, World Music, the Music of Nature, and Angelic Music.
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Music affects human beings. A lively Bach concerto encourages attention and clear thinking, while a CD of harp music and the sounds of ocean waves relaxes us and relieves stress. The Healing Energies Of Music can help determine just the right music to complement a state of mind, heal an emotional or physical ill, or further spiritual yearning. Musical therapist and teacher Hal Lingerman's The Healing Energies Of Music presents a wealth of resources for choosing and locating just the right music for just the right purpose. With comprehensive lists of current recordings (including new and remastered CDs), Lingerman's exhaustive sourcebook will guide the reader in finding music to benefit their temperament, lifestyle, and spiritual aspirations. The Healing Energies Of Music includes Women's Music, World Music, the Music of Nature, and Angelic Music. The Healing Energies Of Music is a unique and valued addition to any personal self-help or music appreciation collection. -- Midwest Book Review
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This book needs to get Jazzed up,
By Darren (Jersey Shore, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Healing Energies of Music (Paperback)
Hal Lingerman does a good job at defining classical music pieces to relieve tension, boredom, grief anxiety and depression, and those compositions which might help one relax, meditate or pray. He also gives quite a menu for musical pieces to give strength and courage, facilitate clear thinking and release anger. Unfortunately, beyond mostly classical music, other genres of music are either omitted altogether or are severely underrepresented. He does however include a chapter representing some world music, women's music and the music of nature. An interesting chapter on personality temperaments, musical preference and the elements of fire, water, air and earth is also included but not enough to save this book from a severe lack of diversity in musical style. After a chapter that basically bastardizes rock and roll, it becomes clear that Lingerman (who is also a minister) is on his own subtle musical pulpit. The music he preaches and advocates is without a doubt, slanted towards the classical genre and angelic in nature. Jazz compositions are virtually omitted altogether. A good book for those with a preference for receiving the healing energy of classical music.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
General discussion plus lengthy lists.,
This review is from: The Healing Energies of Music (Paperback)
THE HEALING ENERGIES OF MUSIC. By Hal A. Lingerman. 292 pp. Second Edition. Wheaton, Il.: Quest Books (The Theosophical Publishing House), 1995. ISBN 0-8356-0722-4 (pbk.)The title of this book might lead one to expect the sort of deep exploration plus practical treatment of music and sound that is found, for example, in the books of Jonathan Goldman, Don G. Campbell, and Katharin Le Mee. These are important books that bring us astounding knowledge about the nature of sound and the powerful and important effects it has on us, knowledge that will be complete news to most. The present book, in contrast, is rather superficial, and does not really tell us anything about sound and music that we don't already know. In fact, this book is little more than a catalogue, and one with a powerful Christian agenda. Each of its twelve chapters follows the same pattern - general (and occasionally gushing) comment followed by a discography. The twelve chapters are as follows : 1. Music and you - A Closer Relationship; 2. Music for Better Health and Well-Being; 3. Finding Your Music; 4. Music for Daily Life; 5. Music for Home and Family; 6. The Music of Nature; 7. Angelic Music; 8. Music and Global Spirituality; 9. Gallery of Great Composers : Composer Keynotes; 10. The Deeper Mysteries of Music; 11. Music for the Future; 12. Women Composers. The book is rounded out with three Appendices, and with a Bibliography in which I note the striking absence of Katharine Le Mee's extremely important book on Gregorian Chant. Although personally I haven't found the slightest use for this book at all, I can see how it might be of some value to people looking for advice about what to listen to. Its intended audience would seem to be the Christian who either has extremely deep pockets or access to an enormous library collection of recordings. My biggest problem with this book, however, is that it assumes a totally passive audience, an audience that simply wants to listen while waves of beautiful sound wash over them. Not that there's anything wrong with this as such, but nothing at all is said about our own power to create music by using the finest instrument that is available to anyone - her or his own God-given voice. Few of us have the ability to sing well. But all of us can learn how to tone, to produce single notes of amazing power and beauty. And I wonder whether the production of such a note, simple and modest as it may seem, may not be doing as much or more for us than a mere passive listening to even the most ravishing symphony or concerto. The modern world is filled to overflowing with experts, whose main effect seems to have been to convince everyone that everything is best left to them. This, however, may not be altogether true, and may have helped to destroy a great deal of individual initiative and creativity. We all have a voice and the innate power of producing marvelous sounds. If, after reading Lingerman and enjoying some of the very fine listening he recommends (his lists, so far as they go, are excellent), you'd like to learn about the real mysteries of sound and how to make hugely enjoyable sounds of your own, try taking a look at these titles : HEALING SOUNDS : The Power of Harmonics. Revised Edition. By Jonathan Goldman. New York : Harper Collins, 1996 (1992). ISBN: 1852308486 (pbk.) THE ROAR OF SILENCE : Healing Powers of Breath, Tone & Music. By Don G. Campbell. 134 pp. Wheaton, Ill.: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1994 (1989). ISBN 0-8356-0645-7 (pbk.) CHANT : The Origins, Form, Practice, and Healing Power of Gregorian Chant. By Katharine Le Mee. 169 pp. New York : Bell Tower, 1994. ISBN 0-517-70037-9 (hbk.) The wise understanding of sound shared by these books goes further than anything in the present book, and since practical instruction is given in the first two, you may discover that you didn't really need Lingerman's lists after all.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A useful addition to anyone's 'music as therapy' library,
By Conrad (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Healing Energies of Music (Paperback)
As another reviewer (Darren) noted, this book does have its biases. The author admits that he usually doesn't find popular music to be particularly healing or therapeutic. That's his experience, and it's OK as long as you're not expecting something different. Books about music therapy vary enormously in their approach. If you are looking into the therapeutic value of classical/new age music, this book gives the topic a unique treatment.
There is somewhat of a guidebook format to the book (e.g. 'Music for Better Health and Well Being' and 'Music of Nature' are chapter titles). Within these are sections about music that is useful for, among other things, 'airing out anger' or for 'clear thinking'. Music is also listed according to the composers near the end of the book. His analysis of composers and their personalities is interesting. In some cases I had never considered how much personality gets communicated through music. I use this book more as a reference guide to classical and new age music than anything else. The only parts where the author began to lose me was where he discusses the composer's astrological birth signs. Other than that, the content is quite accessible.
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