The doctor will serenade you now: surgery prescribes tunes as tonics

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People in Ambleside, Cumbria will be offered ‘musical paracetamol’ in trial that tries to use power of song to lift mood

For someone feeling depressed, the prescription might be an uplifting poem about spring, set to music by the 19th-century composer Gabriel Fauré. For insomniacs, it’s Sleep, an operatic song by the early 20th-century poet Ivor Gurney. And for anyone feeling anxious, it’s An Evening Hymn, Henry Purcell’s musical version of an obscure 17th-century religious poem.

 

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Not endorsing tune therapy, but its opposite is well known. Reports of unease, stress, and even “ghosts” can be attributed to low frequency tones.

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