MEDICINE OF THE SOUL Music and poetry have been used since the earliest known times as a therapeutic ritual to heal both the soul and the body. They have also been used for meditation, and in particular, as a means to mediate with the divine. There is no culture that does not consider music and musical instruments as essential for civilization to progress. Since Pythagoras and the Pre-Socratic philosophers, musical scales and their relationship to cosmic harmony have been thought to have an effect on the harmony of both the bodily humors and the human organs. Music’s mathematical base and its harmonic proportion re-establish the balance of whatever is distorted, or sick. In the past, music was considered to be the language of feelings. Love was a disease of the soul, a kind of insanity, and in the past doctors used music to treat it. What role does music play in our lives? To what depths does it go to get so much sap from such mysterious roots? The oriental mystic brotherhoods, who have inherited classical wisdom, say: “Music filters into the body through the ears just as blood flows through our veins, it purifies the blood, excites the soul, calms the spirit, relaxes the limbs and facilitates their movement”. The rhapsode-musician is the mender who stitches and repairs broken things, “he sews the remnants of the past” and threads them together with his melodies and songs. The performer is inseparable from music and his sensitivity is directly linked to the effect achieved. He is not a mere translator or physician giving medicine. Like a goldsmith, he shares in music's spirit and uses its power to recover the origins that inspired it. Music extracts the essence of emotion from one's being. I have based this selection of music on the moving and balsamic effect I now experience when listening to it. They are all versions, or extracts, that share the Pneuma label’s musical values (word that means Spirit). This recording is dedicated to those for whom music is not only an art to enjoy, but also an “effusion of the soul”. Eduardo Paniagua.
- Wykonawca Paniagua Eduardo
- Data premiery 2012-06-01
- Nośnik CD
