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Effective Practice – a snapshot of the ESMBH project 2 Oct 2013

This is a project to encourage mothers to bond with their babies through shared music in the Neonatal Unit at Gloucester Hospital, UK What has made this effective? Suggested new areas for clinical / musical research coming out of our experience in the NNU: ESMBH site (for parents) And a question: How can a musical […]

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2 October, 201318 March, 2024 markharmer2 Comments

Music and the Heart (as opposed to the brain)

This article says everything about our own thinking although it’s based on heart research. I’d add two things: not for nothing did we call our programme “Early Start – Music by Heart” and when it comes to producing clinical proof of the effectiveness of music on babies, I’m not sure that’s going to be that […]

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16 September, 201316 September, 2013 markharmerNo Comments

Folk art vs Formal art

This extract was extremely influential in my thinking about how folk music differs from formal music I only today found this piece of paper again, and googled a phrase from it, thus was able to find that it is part of a paper by Teshome H. Gabriel. Actually, he was looking at Third World Cinema, […]

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4 May, 201317 May, 2013 markharmerNo Comments

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