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Anyone who has ever seen a two-year-old start bouncing to a beat knows that music speaks to us on a very deep level. But it took celebrated teacher and music visionary Don Campbell to show us just how deep, with his landmark book The Mozart Effect.

Stimulating, authoritative, and often lyrical, The Mozart Effect has a simple but life-changing message: music is medicine for the body, the mind, and the soul. Campbell shows how modern science has begun to confirm this ancient wisdom, finding evidence that listening to certain types of music can improve the quality of life in almost every respect. Here are dramatic accounts of how music is used to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, and even mental illness.

Always clear and compelling, Campbell recommends more than two dozen specific, easy-to-follow exercises to raise your spatial IQ, "sound away" pain, boost creativity, and make the spirit sing!

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• Preface: Looking Back ... and Gazing Foward: A Few Words from Don Campbell(p. xiii)
• Overture: The Speech of Angels and Atoms(p. 1)
• Introduction: A Healing Breeze of Sound(p. 3)
• Chapter 1 Sound Beginnings: The Mozart Effect(p. 13)
• Chapter 2 Sound Listening: The Anatomy of Sound, Hearing, and Listening(p. 31)
• Chapter 3 Sound Healing: The Healing Properties of Sound and Music(p. 60)
• Chapter 4 Sound Voice: Your Original Healing Instrument(p. 86)
• Chapter 5 Sound Medicine: Using Music for Therapy and Rehabilitation(p. 121)
• Chapter 6 Sound Images: Orchestrating the Mind and Body(p. 154)
• Chapter 7 Sound Intellect: Enhancing Learning and Creativity with Music(p. 175)
• Chapter 8 Sound Spirit: The Bridge Between Life and Death(p. 208)
• Coda: The Eternal Song(p. 218)
• Postlude: Miracle Stories of Treatment and Cure(p. 220)
• Sound Resources(p. 284)
• Recommended Reading(p. 295)
• Notes(p. 302)
• Index(p. 324)

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Booklist Review

Campbell's and Ortiz's books overlap in some areas but take different approaches to music and self-improvement. Campbell cites a study of preschool children that demonstrated that those who had basic music training showed greater improvement in spatial and temporal skills than did those who had computer lessons. Modern children are losing out, he says, because they are not being taught at an early stage how to listen. Listening is active, whereas hearing is passive, he maintains. He uses case histories to show how music can enhance memory, learning, and creativity. Properly chosen and presented, music can also alleviate and in some cases apparently cure medical problems, he says, so music is not a frill or an art but a tool and a process that can help industry and customer relations as well as individuals. Campbell cites lay and medical authorities such as neurologist Oliver Sacks and even brings in Lenin, who didn't like Beethoven's music because it made him "want to say kind, stupid things, and pat the heads of people." Ortiz emphasizes being yourself rather than competing. Using case histories, he takes up such clinical issues as depression, self-esteem, and anger in the book's first part and such personal issues as memory, change, and procrastination in the second. Typically, a chapter in these two sections includes an introduction, musical menus, psychological suggestions, and daily exercises. Part 3, on social issues, tells how to improve communication and relationships (e.g., through "Making Musex") and emphasizes learning how to listen. Part 4 takes up such basic elements in Ortiz's philosophy as centering, "HeAr and Now," and letting go. Throughout, he urges taking positive steps toward self-understanding. He expects his readers and patients to work hard for worthwhile results. --William Beatty