[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread Donatella Galletti
My understanding of using music in the operating room is that it relaxes the surgeon and helps him/her focus on doing the operation right. Similarly it is possible to relax the patient in circumstances where (s)he is awake and this would help the treatment (eg in the dentist's chair). I read

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread The Other
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 05:35 am, Daniel F Heiman wrote: 2) I am having difficulty understanding the function of the music in a operating room/theater. I was under the impression that the patient is normally quite unconscious while undergoing the surgery. It makes much more sense to me

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread Ed Durbrow
On Jan 3, 2006, at 9:03 PM, Craig Allen wrote: Actually a friend of mine's wife was in the hospital and he played Dowland songs for here everyday. Um, given how depressing so much of Dowland is (or as Ellen Hargis put it, all melancholy, all the time), wouldn't that be

[LUTE] Ed's Message

2006-01-04 Thread Wayne Cripps
HI folks - Ed's message had some spam at the end - that is my fault, not Ed's. It should not happen again. Wayne To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread Howard Posner
On Wednesday, Jan 4, 2006, at 06:53 America/Los_Angeles, Ed Durbrow wrote: Um, given how depressing so much of Dowland is (or as Ellen Hargis put it, all melancholy, all the time), wouldn't that be counterproductive? :) That's what I thought, but he gave me some examples of the songs he

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread Mathias Rösel
Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: And, of course, Dowland's contemporaries would be quick to pick up the sexual double meanings in all the death references in other songs, though these are probably a bad choice for a modern hospital room. HP Wholesale transfering the piccola morte

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
It has to judged on a case by case basis. It would ludicrous to take JD's ... down, down down fall, down, but arise I never shall! as a sign of erectyledisfunzione (antispam spelling). RT Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: And, of course, Dowland's contemporaries would be quick to

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread Howard Posner
I'm not sure why Roman thinks little death is an Italian concept. English literature through most of the 17th century is rife with it. It has to judged on a case by case basis. Of course. It would ludicrous to take JD's ... down, down down fall, down, but arise I never shall! as a sign of

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread Roman Turovsky
I'm not sure why Roman thinks little death is an Italian concept. English literature through most of the 17th century is rife with it. It certainly originated in Italy, as most good things do. It has to judged on a case by case basis. Of course. And that is my point, to avoid blancket

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-04 Thread David Rastall
On Wednesday, January 4, 2006, at 02:25 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: And that is my point, to avoid blancket statements that amounted to every time death is mentioned it referred to that copulatory objective. I've heard it called by many names, but that's a new one! DR To get on or off this

[LUTE] Texas Policeman Musician

2006-01-04 Thread Sandy Hackney
I know, RT, that he ain't really Texan - he is from close to your home in fact - but there it is: A Texas Policeman Musician. Sandy http://www.kyivpost.com/guide/people/22695/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html