Medical Applications for Music

When someone mentions the word ‘music' what the first thing that pops you're your mind? Is it the subtle relaxing classical organ that blows through your mind or the hard grunge sound of a modern double bass drum? Everyone in the world, no matter what corner of the world people reside, listens to some sort of music or another. Be it rock, classical, rap, hip-hop, country, electronic or any of the other of the hundreds of classifications for music. Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody.
Since the music phenomenon is natural and intuitive, humans can also virtually perform and hear music in their minds, without even learning or understanding it. Traditionally, one of the major difficulties in defining music has been to use the word to try to describe all activities and things related to music and sound . For example, scores only become music through performance, or when recorded performances are replayed. While music is a natural intuitive phenomenon, composing, improvising and performing it are art forms. Also, listening to it can be a source of entertainment, while learning and understanding it are disciplines. Music develops day by day, there are also various factors that may help or force it to change. It common knowledge that both religion and politics have a profound effect on the development of music throughout history but how so? What else has had an effect on the development of music? With a major in medicine were can you find music in the world of medicine?
Man has allowed religion to control and influence his life in many different ways, affecting both his behavior and his actions . So its not surprising that music, one of man's earliest expressive forms, has also been influenced by religion. Religion has had an effect on man's music all throughout history, from the early Egyptians to even now . So... [continues]

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