The Therapeutic Power of Music


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My name is Leah Grullon and I invite you to navegate through pages supported by accurate information, where you can learn and understand what is music, why it has been so powerful since ancient times, and why it is used to heal.For more information please contact meand I can answer all your questions !

— Leah


Brief Introduction

During ancient times,Musicwas considered by the Greeks as the art of the Muses and named by them with the Greek word Mousike that expressed this special quality of belonging to a supernatural-divine level.Donald Jay Grout wrote in his book A History of Western Music,


"Greek mythology ascribed to music adivine origin and considered as its inventors and earliest practicioners gods and demigods, such as:"



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This superior condition was not only percieved by Greeks and Romans,but by the prehistoric world as wellas different religions on all continents. People who lived in the caves did believed music had a mysterious magic power because it could not only influence nature but also heal body and mind.

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For thousand of years, religions all over the world have made music an inseparable part of their religious ceremonies due to its extraordinary potential of invisible energy and revolutionaryCharacteristics.

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In the old Testament, it is described how importantit was for David to create music by playing the harp to cure saul's madness (Samuel XVI: 14-23) or the use of trumpet-blasts to break the walls of Jericho (Joshua VI: 12-20).

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