Useful Therapeutic Music URLs
The ubiquitous use of the Internet has made our task of finding information for isolated therapeutic musicians much easier than in the past. These are some of our favorite resources (in no particular order), as discussed in the Life Long Learning Therapeutic Musician Group sessions.
| TITLE | SOURCE |
URL |
| Aprille's Harp Circle | Aprille Isham |
Beach Cities Harp Ring |
| Background on Maori Farewell Song (Now is the Hour) | Google |
New Zealand Folk Song Web Site |
| Free printable music staff paper (Select the clef and click the Print! button in the lower right corner) |
Aprille Isham |
Blank Sheet Music |
| Lots of folk music lead sheets |
Alice Freeman |
Laramie Monday Night Folk Music Session Information |
| 45 sources of information on harp therapy from professional journals | Alison Ware |
Harp Therapy |
| Lovely article on meditating with a harp (note the link to sheet music at the top of the page) | Alison Ware |
Meditation |
| Susan Zevenbergen's free harp newsletter | Alison Ware | Notes from the Harp |
| John Kovac's PVC Piper Harp Kits |
Alice Freeman |
Very unusual harps |
| Healing Musician Blog - a wonderful new site dedicated to educating, creating dialogue and promoting the practice of healing musicianship at the bedside of the ailing and dying. Stella wants to support the interest of the healing music community, the practitioners, colleagues and supporters. | Stella Benson |
Healing Musician Blog |
| Call Recorder from Ecamm Network. This software is for recording Skype calls on Macintosh computers. Helpful for taping harp lessons and conference calls. | Aprille Isham |
Ecamm Call Recorder |
| Pamela Call Recorder for Skype. This software is for recording Skype calls on Windows 2000, XP and Vista computers. Helpful for taping harp lessons and conference calls. |
Alice Freeman |
Pamela Call Recorder |
| Harp Column magazine and an excellent online Forum | Aprille Isham and Alice Freeman |
Harp Column |
| Excellent site for free online music theory lessons |
Cymber Conn |
Ricci Adams' musictheory.net |
| Heart-based marketing, a positive way of attracting business. | Cymber Conn |
Perfect Customer™ |
| History of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Playing | Cymber Conn |
Slack Key |
| What is an empath? | Alice Freeman | What is an Empath |