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? Playing without a written score: focus of attention is on the audience, the environment and our relationships; focus on the dynamics of the room, response, baby movement; […]
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 […]
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, […]
I’m delighted to have been accepted on the Opus Music in Healthcare 5-day course. The first two days have already been great – looking at different ways to vary the music we play, and getting us as a group sensitive to each other and to the change of pace required in a hospital setting – […]