Sound Choices: Using Music to Design the Environments in Which You Live, Work and Heal [With Music] [Paperback]

Susan Mazer (Author), Dallas Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1999

This text discusses practical ways in which music can be used to directly impact your quality of life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Hay House (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561705691
• ISBN-13: 978-1561705696
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,007,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sound decision, December 20, 1999

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Harriet Saperstein (Detroit, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound Choices: Using Music to Design the Environments in Which You Live, Work and Heal [With Music] (Paperback)

Mazer and Smith have written a book which will help each of us as professionals and "ordinary" individuals understand how to create a sound and healthy environment around ourselves, so that we can communicate better and function better in our family, workplace and community. The alternation of the personal insights and history with solid professional and experiental research is a pleasure to read and offers each reader something new to think about and something old (in their own life) to understand. The power of music to heal and noise to hurt are clearly delineated, and the author's analysis, suggestions and recommendations are laid out thoughtfully and helpfully. Having the CD available to illustrate some of their concepts helps integrate the experience of listening with the joy of reading this fine book. Whether teacher, medical professional, musician, architect, parent, business person, it will be a "sound decision" to buy, read, and use what you have learned from "Sound Choices".

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent presentation of music for healing, January 7, 2005

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Daniel J. Benor "DB@wholistichealingresearch... (Bellmawr, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sound Choices: Using Music to Design the Environments in Which You Live, Work and Heal [With Music] (Paperback)

Susan Mazer and Dallas Smith are musicians who have gifts for music in words as well as in playing their instruments - reflecting a healing presence through the instruments of their personhood.

Each speaks for her/himself, creating a pleasant discourse, stimulating tension of similarities and differences, and harmony in their coming together to share their explorations of bringing music as healing into medical environments that ordinarily are stressful and anything but healing.

Mazer and Smith describe how they birthed and are maturing their skills in using music in hospital and other healthcare settings.

Excellent presentation of music for healing. The authors are sensitive to the healing qualities of the instrument that is the musician - through which the music flows. Reading the book is a healing experience in itself.