Foundations of sound therapy.

In the practice of music therapy, the use of the sounds of a live naturally singing voice appears to be the most effective; in some cases, results are obtained whereas there are no results using musical sounds, and generally results are obtained in a much shorter time. Sounds and singing in just intonation are particularly efficient. This practice introduces to a deep understanding of sound therapy. Sketched here are the vocal soundbody relationship and the vocal sound consciousness relationship, which are relevant in this therapy. Finally clinical examples are given (coma states, loss of speech, old persons, states close to death, mind handicapped persons, depression, etc.). Bibliography I. Reznikoff: On Primitive Elements of Musical Meaning, www.musicandmeaning.net, Journal of Music and Meaning 3 (Invited papers), 2005.

Reznikoff I. Université de Paris X, Département de Philosophie, 92001 Nanterre, France, dominiqueleconte@yahoo.fr. J Acoust Soc Am. 2008 May;123(5):3798.