Explore how music therapy across cultures promotes healing, enhances mental and physical well-being, and supports overall health.

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Music and its healing powers can be traced to the ancient Greeks, who visited the healing temples of Asclepios to seek inner peace and relief from suffering. According to Pavli (2024), in the ancient ...

Armand D'Angour has received funding from the British Academy, from the University of Oxford, and from Jesus College, Oxford. In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the ...

Excavations at Bagno Grande suggest an Etruscan medical school, revealing evidence of ancient healing practices.