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An exploration of music and its capacity to heal. The author draws on philosophical, anthropological, psychiatric and musical perspectives to propose that music has a rolse in balancing the natural polarities within the self. The book examines different musical traditions, using thees polarities as themes to connect them. It includes the history of music as high culture as developed in Western philosophy, the concept of the music of the spheres as evolved by Greeks and Renaissance thinkers, the work of 19th century music theorists such as Hanslick, and contemporary ideas by musicologists such as Nicholas Cook.

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June Boyce-Tillman read Music at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She has been active in the areas of music education, in particular the introduction of composing activities in schools and the establishment of World Musics at King Alfred's University College. She has been Project Officer for an EEC intercultural project, has done pioneering work in interfaith dialogue in South London. Her work has been published internationally, and she has lectured all over the world. She is also involved in liturgical music, composing much religious music including hymns, and is Founder of the Hildegard Network which is concerned with bringing together the fields of healing, the arts and theology. At present she is Reader in Community and Performing Arts at King Alfred's University College, Winchester.

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