Hadreas sketches a dissonant scene of communal sacrifice: “Our body is stretched / And holding one breath / Sharpen the palm / And sever the flesh.” The music turns darker, before shifting ...

For Cesar Lujan, a sound healer in El Paso, the influence of sound is an opportunity to help the mind and body heal. In his sound baths, Lujan combines different musical tones and sounds together ...

In traditional Chinese medicine, specific musical tones and rhythms were believed to balance the body's energy (qi) and enhance health. During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Christian ...

His “Method of Composing With Twelve Tones Which Are Related Only With One Another” outlined the procedures for what became known as “atonal” music, breaching nearly every precept of the ...