title: Essential Musical Intelligence: Using Music as Your Path to Healing, Creativity, and Radiant Wholeness
author:  Louise Montello 
description: Listen deeply to this book! It helps us savor sound for the wellness of our communities, families, and own selves.<br /><br />- Don Campbell, author of<i>The Mozart Effect</i>and<i>Music, Physician for Times to Come</i><br /><i></i><br />Louise Montello provides methods of deepening our experience of music in ways that contribute to healing and the cultivation of wisdom.<br /><br />- Larry Dossey, MD, Executive Editor,<i>Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine</i>; author of<i>Healing Beyond the Body</i>,<i>Reinventing Medicine</i>, and<i>Healing Words</i><br /><i></i><br />Dr. Louise Montello bridges East and West and teaches creative ways of healing from both perspectives. Readers learn how to use the language of music to grow spiritually, heal the past, and create a life-enhancing future. Dr. Montello is a master of simple techniques to help everyone find the music within.<br /><br />- Suzanne B. Hanser, EdD, MT-BC, founding chair of the Music Therapy Department at Berklee College of Music, past president of the World Federation of Music Therapy and the National Association of Music Therapy; author of the<i>Music Therapy Handbook</i>and<i>Integrative Health Through Music Therapy</i><br /><br />Louise Montello&apos;s book brings a far ranging perspective and deep insight into the field of music and healing. This new and innovative material will open the door, for music lovers and health care professionals alike, to the majesty and power of healing with sound.<br /><br />- Glen Velez, percussionist, composer, and performer whose audio CD&apos;s include<i>Rhythms of the Chakras</i>and<i>Breathing Rhythms</i><br /><br />Music is an essential bridge uniting mind, body, and spirit. Essential Musical Intelligence is your personal road map for healing.<br /><br />- Barry Bittman, MD, CEO of the Mind-Body Wellness Center in Leadville, Pennsylvania and author of<i>Reprogramming Pain</i><br /><br />It is a testament to the truth of this book that the text alone transmits its healing vibrations, even without the music. Certainly the book inspires the sense of good will and hope, blessedness, wisdom, and faith that channel and nurture our energies for health. The symphony that is man reflects and resonates with the symphony that is creation, and between is the space wherein we, each one of us, strive to find and grasp the spiritual nature of who and how we are. Dr. Montello opens up this space, illuminates it, and advises us how to navigate the mysteries of everyday miracles and reach out to touch the immense treasure that awaits our claim. It is impossible to read her work without feeling its strength coursing through one&apos;s body and to joyfully feel better for it. Share it with countless others. This book will have a joyous destiny.<br /><br />- Clive E. Robbins, DHL, DMM, MT-BC, founder of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Center in London and New York City; music therapist and master teacher; coauthor of<i>Creative Music Therapy</i><br /><br />In the hands of this master, an exquisite spirituality guides and deepens our experience of music. Montello brings to her writing the insight of a fine performer, a gifted teacher, ad an experienced psychoanalyst. Her work in transforming lives is brought herein to a new dimension. You will be changed for the better if you read this book!<br /><br />- Eli H. Newberger, MD, pediatrician, musician, and author of<i>The Men They Will Become: The Nature and Nurture of Male Character</i><br /><br />Louise Montello points out wisely that each person<i>IS</i>music. She demonstrates how each of us is continuously vibrating and radiating our own energy field, composed of dimensions of the body, emotions, mind, soul, will, and spirit. Experiencing and making beautiful music attunes us to the larger realms of Light and the many frequencies of energy and consciousness available to us and waiting to be awakened. For readers in our diversified world today, it is important to give specific examples music that has proved to be therapeutic. The author suggests many particular musical selections that can help to balance the listener physiologically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. These selections range across many genres of music and include classical, popular, New Age and world compositions. I especially enjoyed Dr. Montello&apos;s multicultural orientation, both musically and spiritually. She also lists personal case studies where music has helped individuals with different needs. I believe that her work is informative and inspirational, while yet respecting the mysterious and subjective ways in which different musical selections and performances affect each of us so uniquely. Read this book!<br /><br />- Hal A. Lingerman, MA, M. Div., author of<i>The Healing Energies of Music</i>
zlib_text: Musical Creativity
  This collection initiates a resolutely multidisciplinary research dynamic
  speciﬁcally concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most chal-
  lenging issues currently facing scientiﬁc psychology and its study has been
  relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in artiﬁcial intelligence. This
  book will address the need for a coherent and thorough exploration.
  Musical Creativity: Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice
  comprises seven sections, each viewing musical creativity from a diﬀerent
  scientiﬁc vantage point, from the philosophy of computer modelling, through
  music education, interpretation, neuroscience, and music therapy, to experi-
  mental psychology. Each section contains discussions by eminent inter-
  national specialists of the issues raised, and the book concludes with a postlude
  discussing how we can understand creativity in the work of eminent composer,
  Jonathan Harvey.
  This unique volume presents an up-to-date snapshot of 