Interaction between children, parents and medical staff with insight into different cultures

Music in hospital supports children’s social education to the extent that the musical activities can help the child to develop aspects of their ‘human capital’ (Karkou & Glasman, 2004: 170) through the promotion of adaptability, creativity and social skills. Music also offers possibilities for collaboration and interaction between children, parents and medical staff, as well as giving insight into different cultures. This is often the case when children/parents from different countries or different social backgrounds have to share a room for long  periods of time. Music sessions in these cases often facilitate communication through the exchange of songs or simply by lightening the atmosphere in the room, fostering casual conversations between parents, or between parents and nurses, that, for a brief time perhaps, are not focused on the children’s illness.  […]

Music in this context can be successfully employed to support social interactions between different people involved in the process of music-making. Experiencing a successful participation in musical activities facilitates an increased sense of community, of belonging to a group, embracing patients, carers and musicians (Karkou & Glasman, 2004). This sense of community has been fostered officially by the hospital management who have recently expanded the music scheme to other wards across the hospital. The management have institutionalised the music provision through systematic financing and the designation of key personnel with responsibilities for ensuring the music programme. Musicians are now perceived as part of the paramedical staff and the ‘institutionalisation’ of the programme has made collaboration between musicians and nurses easier and more effective.  […]

For Lave and Wenger (1991: 116), learning ‘is never simply a matter of the transmission of knowledge or the acquisition of skill . . . it is a reciprocal relationship between persons and practices’. In a community of practice, members are brought together by joining in common activities and by what they have learned through their mutual engagement in these activities. In this respect, a community of practice involves shared practice. […]

Conclusion

The provision of music in a hospital context embraces a multiplicity of potential and actual experiences for all the participants, whether adult or child, patient or carer. Its multifaceted character relates both to the nature of musical sound and also to its human processing, whether as initiator, participant or ‘audience’. The power of music as a form of emotional  symbolisation is reflected in the organisation of its sounds, such as its tone colours, contours, intensities and rhythms unfolding over time. The selected music’s impact (physiological, psychological, social, educational) is likely to be enhanced by the physical action, the communication behaviours, of the live performers, who have to remain sensitive throughout to the subtle nuances of response from the ‘audience’ (patients, parents, hospital staff) in a moment-by-moment monitoring of performance effectiveness towards the intended outcome. This is a symbiotic process in the course of which performers, patients and other members of the (often participant) audience ‘share’ a musical experience and perhaps are all changed by it in some way.  


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231743662_Music_in_a_hospital_setting_a_multifaceted_experience

Abstract
The article offers an explanation of the effects of music on children within a hospital setting and points up the multifaceted nature of this experience. The nature of the client group allows the musical experience to work on many different levels, such as modifying the child’s perception of pain and reducing stress, whilst at the same time having an integral educational element that supports musical development. The evidence base is drawn from an extensive review of the music/medicine literature, interfaced with the first author’s experience over many years as a participant musician in a paediatric oncology ward.

Source: Costanza Preti & Graham Frederick Welch in”Music in a hospital setting: a multifaceted experience”, November 2004 British Journal of Music Education 21(03):329 – 345

The Unesco Courier December 1961: Rabindranath Tagore: A Universal Voice

pp. 16 music notation and article on Tagore’s music by Philippe Stern & Arnold A. Bake


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The acclaimed BBC 4 podcast series titled Incarnations: India in 50 Lives has also been published in book form (Allen Lane).

“I was moved by how many of these lives pose challenges to the Indian present,” he writes, “and remind us of future possibilities that are in danger of being closed off.”1

  1. Sunil Khilnani quoted in a review by William Dalrymple in The Guardian, 14 March 2016[]

Dealing with life’s challenges with the help of music – and understanding it better, to begin with: “Why we love music”, a book by John Powell

“The effect of music on our body chemistry is particularly fascinating to me. Our bodies effectively contain an internal pharmacy that dispenses various chemicals to help us deal with life’s challenges.” – John Powell

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In “Why You Love Music,” John Powell, a physicist who has also studied musical composition, offers an array of answers that mainly reflect his scientific background. He conveys some basic musical information painlessly, including tuning and scales, the construction of melodies, and elements of timbre and key. His writing is chatty and unpretentious; he is informal and down-home, at times quite funny. If you have ever felt intimidated by music and its terminology of whole and half steps, scales and chords, this book will put you at ease. – Peter Pesic, Wall Street Journal (£)Buy the book

Why We Love Music is published byJohn Murray at £9.99 and is available from the Guardian Bookshop for £8.49

Source: The science of songs: how does music affect your body chemistry? | Books | The Guardian
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With chapters on music and emotions, music as medicine, music and intelligence and much more, Why We Love Music will entertain through to the very last minute. A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why We Love Music is the perfect audiobook for anyone who loves a tune.

Source: Why We Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica – the Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds (Audio Download): Amazon.co.uk: John Powell, Phil Fox, John Murray: Books
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Video | Chor@Berlin 2017: Ode an die Nacht (Ausschnitt)

Chor@Berlin 2017: Ode an die Nacht (Ausschnitt) from Deutscher Chorverband on Vimeo.

Mit „Ode an die Nacht“ gelangte im Rahmen von Chor@Berlin am 24. Februar 2017 im Radialsystem V das letzte Werk von Harald Weiss’ „Darkness Project“ zur Uraufführung.

Kammerchor Berlin (Einstudierung: Stefan Rauh)
Concentus Neukölln – Ensemble der Musikschule Paul-Hindemith, Neukölln (Einstudierung: Thomas Hennig)
Berliner Mädchenchor (Einstudierung: Sabine Wüsthoff)

Indischer Gesang und Tambura: Manickam Yogeswaran
Blues-Gesang: Hanno Bruhn
Bajan: Mateja Zenzerovic
Klavier und Synthesizer: Peter Müller
Violine: Kinneret Sieradzki
Kontrabass: Guy Tuneh
Schlagzeug: Viorel Chiriacescu, Daniel Eichholz und Alexandros Giovanos
Elektro-akustische Vorproduktion: Harald Weiss
Stimme: Andrea Gubisch
Gesamtleitung: Thomas Hennig

“This music was created by people with heart and intellect”: Remembering the Jewish refugee who composed the All India Radio caller tune

Naresh Fernandes

All India Radio’s caller tune has been heard by hundreds of millions of people since it was composed in 1936. Somewhat improbably, the melody, based on raga Shivaranjini, was composed by the Czech man in the middle of the trio pictured above:  Walter Kaufmann. He was the director of music at AIR and was one of the many Jewish refugees who found a haven in India from the Nazis. […]

Detailed accounts of the musician’s life in Mumbai are to be found in film scholar Amrit Gangar’s book The Music That Still Rings at Dawn, Every Dawn, as well as in Agata Schindler’s essay, “Walter Kaufmann: A Forgotten Genius”, in the volume Jewish Exile in India: 1933-1945. The musician’s reason for coming to India was simple: “I could easily get a visa,” Schindler quotes him as saying in one of his letters. […]

“As I knew that this music was created by people with heart and intellect, one could assume that many, in fact millions would be appreciating or in fact loving this music… I concluded that the fault was all mine and the right way would be to undertake a study tour to the place of its origin,” he wrote. […]

His study would be so intense, it would result in books such as The Ragas of North India, The Ragas of South India : A Catalogue of Scalar Material and Musical Notations of the Orient: Notational Systems of Continental, East, South and Central Asia. […]

Source: Remembering the Jewish refugee who composed the All India Radio caller tune
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