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Music and Psychological Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Sydney D. Mitchell*
Affiliation:
Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey
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Extract

I shall begin my survey of the relationships between music and psychological medicine by considering two important theoretical questions.

First, what is the meaning of pure music? Your President' has happily described music as having completely digested the experiences of human life and nature that could only be crudely and vaguely expressed in words.

Secondly, why should music have a stronger immediate effect on most people than the other arts?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1950

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