Music Soothes the Savage Breast

Auteurs

  • Joanne V. Loewy DA, L-CAT, MT-BC
  • Ralph Spintge MD

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v3i2.386

Résumé

‘‘Music has Charms to soothe a savage Breast’’ is a familiar phrase which dates back to 1697 as part of a play entitled The mourning bride by the poet William Congreve. Less familiar are the lines which follow: ‘‘To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I’ve read, that things inanimate have mov’d, And, as with living Souls, have been inform’d.’’1 The initial phrases of this poem may be interesting to think about in terms of music’s application in medicine...

Bibliographies de l'auteur

Joanne V. Loewy, DA, L-CAT, MT-BC

Director, The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Ralph Spintge, MD

Department of Algesiology and Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine, Regional Pain CentreDGS,Lu ̈ denscheid,Germany

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Numéro

Vol. 3 No 2 (2011)

Rubrique

Editorial