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MUSIC TRADE
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REVIEW
were made by the late Dr. E. C. Dent, superin-
Recent progresa In the application of musi3
tendent of Manhattan State Hospital on Ward's as a medicine will be discussed in due course
iHland. Of one set of patients so treated he has at conventions of the National Society of Musi-
For Human Ills—How Patients Are Treated
cal Therapeutics, which was organized several
and Results Secured—Music as a Medicine reported the following observations:
1. Pulse, respiration and bodily temperature years ago to "encourage the study of music in
Is Not a Fancy, but a Substantial Fact.
usually increased in majority of cases.
relation to life and health and the promotion of
2. Bodily nutrition greatly improved In nearly
its use as a curative agent in hospitals, asylums
No longer confined to amusement purposes
only at opera or concert, music is now a medi- all cases; three-fourths of them showing a and prisons." The president of the society is
Miss Eva A. Vescelius.
cine and is practiced extensively as such in marked increase In weight.
3. They were less disturbed through the night,
hospitals, asylums, and prisons throughout the
CANNOT LEARN WHAT PUBLIC WANTS.
nation. Its value as a curative agent Is estab- showing that the calming effect was prolonged
lished as the result of many experiments by for some time.
Music as a medicine has a wide application. It
"I have a hundred songs, but have not yet been
those interested in the care and the cure of the
sick, and it is now accorded a prominent place has been administered while the patient slept able to learn what American audiences want,"
in the materla medica, especially for such com- and also to induce sleep, in cases of hysteria, says Cissie Curlette, the English singer whom
plaints as neurasthenia, insomnia and nervous insomnia, and other nervous diseases. It has William Morris, Inc., brought to this country as
prostration. Complaints of patients suffering often proved more potent than the strongest a vaudeville "headliner" and who recently played
from such maladies are diagnosed by physicians gedatlves, with the added inducement of pro- the Morris circuit. "Audiences here are slower
who are experts in musical therapeutics, and ducing a natural sleep. It aids surgery with its than I have found them in any other country and
I have been to Australia, South America, Africa,
doses of rhythm, melody and harmony are pre- harmonizing waves, relieving congestions and
Ireland and on the Continent. The audiences in
scribed and administered with remarkable re- reducing Inflammation. While its application in
organic nervous diseases is not clearly estab- those places have 'seen' my songs quicker than
mits.
In an interesting experiment the exact effects lished, it Is useful In functional difficulties, such they do here. So I must keep on using the songs
of musical treatment were demonstrated by Dr. as nervous prostration and the depression accom- I have introduced in America until I make them
go."
Francis S. Kennedy, of Brooklyn, a prominent panying it.
Miss Curlette's quandary should strike a re-
As medicines are classified, so has music been
pioneer In musical therapeutics. The patient
was a person only slightly musical and of dark classified. There are stimulants, as strychnine; sponsive chord among music publishers, at least
complexion and medium build. While classical sedatives, as the bromides; narcotics, as mor- in the matter of finding it difficult to ascertain
music was played upon a piano observations were phine, and tonics, as iron and arsenic. Liszt's what the public wants. No one has yet answered
taken of the subject's pulse and respiration. "Hungarian Rhapsodle No. 2," for example, has that question in advance of actual tests made at
With the pulse at 80 the effect of "Solveig'a been found to be stimulating to a high degree, public performances.
Song," by Grieg, was to lower the pulse to 76, whereas Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song" has
For a department store to give a musical
and when the "Traumerei," by Schumann, was the effect of a sedative in the treating of a
played, it dropped to 64, and then rose under the nervous patient. Schubert's "Ave Maria" Is a festival that compels the serious attention of
influence of "The Little Romance," by the same narcotic, and for patients in need of a tonic, musicians of note is an event unlikely to take
composer, to 70. The pulsations were accelerated marches and bright and melodious waltz songs place except as a feature of modern American
life. Such a festival was recently held in John
and rose to 80 in response to the inspiring notes are most effective.
Wanamaker's Philadelphia store. Various choral
In musical treatment the cause and nature of
of "The Invitation to Dance," by Von Weber, and
in the intervals between the playing of this the disorder and the sensitiveness of the patient societies and quartettes of that city competed for
number and selections from the "Oberon," which to the influence of music are ascertained and prizes. The compositions performed were all the
followed, dropped to 68, and then went up to 84 then are administered the key, rhythm, and kind works of American composers, and included sev-
when the "Fantasie" was played. Respiration of music best suited to the requirements of the eral written by the judges. George W. Chadwick,
was similarly affected. At 20 with the playing case. The personal keynote of the patient is the Arthur Foote, John Philip Sousa and Horatio
of "Solveig's Song," it dropped to 18 under the Important factor In this cure. It Is used as a Parker acted as judges, and the affair was
influence of the "Traumerei" and "The Little point of departure and return in administering directed by Dr. Lewis Browne, the musical
Romance," returned to 20 with "The Invitation treatments. To get this personal keynote the director at Wanamaker's store.
to Dance," and rose to 22 while the "Oberon" usual method Is to require the patient to pro-
nounce each of the vowels in his singing voice,
and "Fantasie" were played.
How Insane persons are affected by music was prolonging the final U, until the corresponding
demonstrated at a concert given for the inmates note Is found on the piano. "Every note pro-
Irish Cowboy Song. By William* and Van Alstyne.
of the Dunning (111.) Asylum. Four hundred duces a certain number of vibrations and a
insane men and women listened quietly from certain numuer of vibrations in a second will
the first numoer of the programme to the con- always produce the same note whatever the in-
Our Comic Specialty.
By Jerome and Schwartz.
clusion. Patients, who In the wards were con- strument used," says Higgius in his "Philosophy
tinuously restless, sat quiet and subdued. In the of Sound." "The power cf the vibrations on the
A Rousing Hit.
By Williams and Van Alstyne.
words of Dr. Podstata, general superintendent, Individual may be understood from the law that
the music was "better than barrels of medicine the undulations of any vibrating body can put
and much more effective than straps or strait- Into motion any other body, when the vibrations
are the same." This is one of the chief reasons
Jackets."
Jerome and Schwartz' Rosiest "Rose" Song.
Other experiments, extending over some years, why in giving a dcse of music It Is Important
to get the patient's keynote.
In utilizing music as a remedy the best re-
Novelty Waltz Song.
By Bryan and Gumble.
sults can be obtained when the patient Is not
in the room with the musician, as the music
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then is quite impersonal and the patient, freed
from all self-consciousness, receives much greater
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benefit. Music, administered during sleep, has
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proved exceedingly beneficial. The theory of
this practice is analogous to the idea that he
who
falls asleep at the opera or the concert Is
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