I can't play an instrument and I cannot sing nor do I understand musicology ! But in social settings I used selections of music that induce specific moods and behaviors during social gatherings. Certain types of music will provoke specific "feelings" and for us CLL patients music may induce a momentary euphoria when it carries our thoughts for a few moments, willingly or unwillingly, into a different life situation. The military uses music as a "rousing" stimulant: Example the John Phillip Sousa marches which the U.S. military uses since the 1870's. Between us: The Sousa marches are really Portugal's "Dobrado". The Sousa family was of portuguese origin. Or the Austrian folkloric and military march "Kaertner Liedermarsch". Spain's "pasodoble" encouraged "toreros" (bull fighters)but is also danced by couples . Example: "Pasodoble el Gato Montes". Romantic music may further ease into personal encounters. Some societies even use romantic music for funerals: Even in the United States, Mexican immigrant and descendant families will contract a "Mariachi" ensemble to play during the final phase of the funeral in the cementery: Slow, romantic, poetic, philosophical compositions whose lysrics are known by all, such as "Sombras nada mas" ("Only shadows") to which most have danced and sung many times during their lifes. Then there is the "medical attidute ' music like the 1990's hit in Latinamerica: "Bilirubina" (My bilirubinA rises when you do not look back at me ! Only your love can help: AspirinA, insulinA, vitaminA will not help for bilirubinA ! " See video: BILIRUBINA VINA 1991 . My favorite therapy videos are all clustered under search titel "BAHIA YOUTH TICO" : An infusion of youth in a half a dozen of different videos.
Music like exercise has a role in medicine. - CLL Support
Music like exercise has a role in medicine.
My type of healing
A certain form of music, the MERENGUE of the Dominican Republic certainly is one reason that Dominicanos never "act old". The best known singer gave his last concert at age 96 : See video JOSEITO MATEO CONCIERTO 2016 . He even sang and danced at the national hommage for him a half a year before his death of leukemia at age 98: Video EL MERENGUE SEGUN MATEO . At 93 he sang together with three other singers, all over 85 : CANA BRAVA MATEO FRANK . There are 100 selections of MERENGUE music on the internet 24 hours without commercials: TROPICAL 100 MERENGUE . As low volume background music for exercise or housework very relaxing and slightly stimulating: A natural high ! Music is probably also slows "aging" in Brazilians and Austrians and possibly Hungarians.
I am working musicotherapy in Psichiatric hospital with my patients.I belive that music helping.
Thank you for that essay and encouragement to use music for our healing. I can hear the Mariachi Band now--love the trumpets and it brings me fond memories of the smells of Pinion Pine burning in the ovens and fireplaces in the Southwest where county seat towns have squares and celebrations with Mariachi Band playing.
Good vibes rising have to be healing for anyone.
The Mariachi music genre seems of century-old tradition, but developed primarily from musicians of the Vargas family in Tecatitlan/Jalisco State in the 1920's. In the 1930's the "patriotic socialist" government of President Lazaro Cardenas (who had been a general in the "Revolucion"1910 -1920) promoted this "national music" and put the musicians on the payroll of the Fire Department. The emerging Mexican film industry stimulated the "traditonal mexican" aspects, such as the Mariachi costume borrowed from the fashion of 19th century Mexican cattle barons. Today Mariachi bands and music are also "traditional" in some other Latin American nations. In November of each year - Mariachi Vargas stages in San Antonio/Texas the annual competition of high school and university Mariachi bands in the USA (Texas, South West, California, paid by tax payers as local culture.)
Interesting to have a very specific focus on mood and healing. Thank you.
I notice the effect on popular mood in certain societies from the effects of their music. There is also a physical effect when you hear a certain rythm from many directions during most of the day and even into the night. In the Caribbean you live in rythm with the whole place during most hours. During the tranquil era in Mexico.. in mid-20th century, music was everywhere: A singer from Brazil who made his career in Mexico (Nelson Ned) described as: "In Mexico you breath music". Once upon a time, the USA had also a musical athmosphere during the Dixieland Jazz era, the Big Band Swing age, even up do DoWop. But then all ended - as far as I am concerned...
The right kind of music certainly improves my mood, which makes me feel better and healthier, true or not 
Sometimes when I need a little boost, I deliberately listen to certain music. For example : TROPICAL 100 MERENGUE is a stimulating selection of ever-changing 100 Caribbean music. But in the evening while reading I put on TROPICAL 100 BOLEROS - soothing and relaxing. That is 24 hours on the internet without talk or commercials.
Hi janvog
Music plays a very large part in my life ... from soulful cello/Gregorian chants ... to ... Pink Floyd/Led Zepellin and everything in between. My attic is full of vynyl, cd and music DVDs ... at the last count, I averaged an album a week since I started collecting in 1972.
The collection 'exploded' when I was injured in 1990, it is most definitely has been the most important tool in my pain management routine ever since.
Meds, may dull the pain ... music lifts my spirit .
oh, and I was only informed the other day , that my singing is not fit for purpose ... but now that I'm losing my hearing, I don't hear the 'bad bits' anymore ... works for me !
ygtgo
Sousa also wrote operettas:
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Some of his best marches were recycled from failed operetta themes. Sousa is an acquired taste, though, I think.
Personally, I find that Louis Prima lifts my spirits effectively. The music swing boisterously, he's funny:
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Louis Prima Collector's Series
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Louis Prima Greatest Hits || The Best Of Louis Prima [ Full Album ]
But I'm from New Orleans, so I'm biased.
=seymour=
Absolutely New Orleans musicians! In December I bought a dozen New Orleans jazz tapes for the mechanics and front-deck staff of the building in which I reside. Here is the secret of New Orleans music: In 1898 a military band from New Orleans went with Teddy Roosevelt' "Rough Rangers" to Cuba during the final days of the war against Spain. Until then the delta music had been traditional blues. But then the New Orleans musicians heared Cuban music and when they returned to New Orleans - the Jazz evolved from that inspiration.
I hadn't heard that!
I know there was much contact between Cuba and New Orleans starting in the mid 1700s. I'd appreciate a link or book citation. I'm taking a History of New Orleans Music class at University of New Orleans this semester. New Orleans composer, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, is generally cited with the first western style composition of a song with the habanera beat - in 1848.
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Bamboula - Louis Moreau Gottschalk
He was only a teenager when he wrote it, and said the song came to him while thinking of his Creole nurse maid from childhood while delirious with a fever in Paris. He influenced Bizet and Saint-Saens, among others, and a whole spanish tinge became popular in opera.
But it wasn't a blues form. It just had the tresillo rhythm that others later imitated in some jazz and popular music.
We did learn that there was a Mexican military band at the 1884 Cotton Centennial that caused quite a change in the already existing brass bands in New Orleans - more toward virtuoso performances.
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What we were told is that the blues originated in slave work songs, which originated in West African songs. They weren't thought to be important enough to transcribe until years later. The term, "blues" already existed in American, and I think British culture as a metaphor for depression, sadness, melancholy, etc. In music, jazz historians look for the 12 bar phrase with the I, IV, I, V, I pattern, as well as flatted thirds and sevenths in the melody. But it's all endlessly debated all over the world. I personally hope that something shows up on a late 19th century player piano roll in someone's attic.
I like to think the original blues was played on African stringed gourd instruments, and derived from something that sounded like Ali Farka Toure plays here:
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Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder - Bonde
But, I'm sure Toure was also influenced by western music. I can listen to him and Ry Cooder all day. It's hypnotic.
=seymour=
Well we all get our minds off leukemia for a while ! I read about the New Orleans military band that came with Teddy Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" to Cuba in the final days of the war against Spain which the Cuban insurgents had already almost won after many years of resistance. In the 19th century many music genres received their genes from Cuba, not only Dixieland Jazz, by the Tango in Argentina (via the Habanera). The Danzon, still popular in university settings in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Cuba, evolved in Cuba in the 1870's. DANZON NO. 2 by Mexican composer Arturo Marquez is now in global philharmonic repetoire . DUDAMEL DANZON NO. 2 . The BOLERO developed in Cuba after 1840 from the CONTRADANZA and CANZIONE NAPOLITANE .
Music certainly stirs my soul...I sing in church but also love many types of music-classic 60's/70's rock, songs with great orchestration, torch songs..to me it is a natural "high" -brings such joy to my spirit.
Singing stimulates the respiration and relaxes the muscles: More medical benefits related to music. The finest and most famous singer in Latin America was JAVIER SOLIS, originally a butcher whose boss was impressed and financed professional singing lessons for his worker. Try the video: JAVIER SOLIS INCERTIDUMBRE but do not judge by the costume - like once the "singing cowboys" in the USA. When he died at 36 due to a medical mishap - 200,000 showed up for his funeral.
Hi Janvog....nice little comment on the history & usage of music for health and in society. What I love from America is the New Orleans jazz bands playing for funeral marches. It moves me a lot! and the wonderful series of "Treme" with all the N. Orleans types of jazz.
Today in Mexico the Mariachi Band at the funeral is common standard. Mariachis are also combining with Philharmomics. Try what may appear under: MARIACHI VARGAS BIKINA FILARMONICA QUERETARO .
Thank you for starting this wonderful thread. The history of music is fascinating, especially in the blend of traditions, and I love all of the information contributed here! As a singer, the emotive and healing power of music has sustained me since childhood, both in singing and listening to music. There’s a wonderful book on the voice titled “This is the Voice” by journalist John Colapinto that delves into the emotional power of the voice in singing and speaking.
An unique voice was the Mexican singer Javier Solis who was a butcher. The owner of the butcher shop was impressed and financed some professional lessons for his worker. Try the video JAVIER SOLIS INCERTIDUMBRE (dismiss the cowboy get-up ). Another was the Venezuelan ALFREDO SADEL (Video ALFREDO SADEL VEREDA ) . In the lone hours after midnight, their voices stream from many radio stations in Latin America. Another was the Brazilian ALDEMAR DUTRA . My favorite Italian is LUCIANO VERGILI .
I have relaxed to music my whole life. I also have exercised by dancing to music. Similar to 'Calgon take me away.' My current favorite dancing music is Santana. Almost every day I dance 30 to 60 minutes listening to my Santana CD's.
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