Maureen McCarthy Draper, a classical pianist and music teacher, presents music retreats for the Guild for Psychological Studies both in San Francisco and from her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, using live music, poetry, and art. The Nature of Music is her first book.
Draper s love for music is contagious. She provides a useful set of listening exercises, or music breaks, at the end of each chapter, as well as an extensive listening bibliography for enhancing every aspect of life, from work to sex. <b>Publishers Weekly</b> A lovely, lyrical, elegantly useful guide for all of us, healthy or ill, who want to reap full benefit from the wonderful world of music. <b>Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D., Chief, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center </b> Mystics say that we are music, and poems are rough notations for that music. This book will send you back to the music you love. <b>Coleman Barks, poet and translator of The Essential Rumi </b></p></p>