Cathy on Piano

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Healing with the Arts

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University of Florida

Healing with the Arts

114 ratings

Through art projects—including visual arts, dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing With the Arts gives you the tools to heal what you need to heal in your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

From the lesson

Music

Music in Healthcare Settings5:50

Singing Bowls4:32

Cathy on Piano4:26

Meet the Instructors

Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
College of Nursing
Michael Samuels, MD

What I like to call aural environmental enhancement.

When people come in and they're sad, or upset, or scared, or nervous and

all of a sudden they hear some music playing.

And they just like, [MUSIC]

They look over and see that there's a real person playing.

[MUSIC]

And they stop and smile, and,

[MUSIC]

And sometimes I'll be walking around an hour or two later upstairs, and

I'll hear somebody whistling the tune I was playing earlier.

[MUSIC]

So it does have quite a ripple effect.

[MUSIC]

The piano is a very versatile instrument, so you can play music from all

different countries, and by different composers and different styles.

Like you could play, you can play classical music that people know and

love, like,

[MUSIC]

We can play like boogie woogie.

[MUSIC]

Or you can play familiar songs that people recognize right away and

might want to sing along with like,

[MUSIC]

I got sunshine on a cloudy day.

When it's cold outside, I got the month of May.

[MUSIC]

That song's a good example of a song that has a really long shelf-life.

Because when it first came out, it was during the rhythm and

blues era in the 70s, and it was very popular.

And then, it came out over a decade later in a movie called My Girl.

So several different generations will get to know songs because

they get brought back.

These classic songs that are really good, get brought back.

And we like playing those in the hospital.

But you have to be a little bit careful because songs

have memories associated with them for people, that might be good or bad.

[MUSIC]

And might even change.

[MUSIC]

A lot of us have a memory of this song, from hearing it in The Wizard of Oz.

[MUSIC]

Now, this song was played at my mother's funeral, so it kind of changed for

me a little bit.

But I didn't stop loving the song,

I mean, that was the reason we chose it was because it was a beloved song.

And now a whole new generation knows that song in a different way because of the way

Izzy, the wonderful Hawaiian ukulele player, played it.

So you can play all these different kinds of styles on the piano.

[MUSIC]

Little kind of soothing, new age kind of music.

[MUSIC]

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