Óscar Arboleda

Music (the art of combining silences and sounds) is also a physical phenomenon that affects physical bodies, like ours, for example. How does this phenomenon impact our individual and social health? This is what the doctor, musicologist and renowned soprano Patricia Caicedo explains to us in this book. A fascinating and profound book, written in a language and structure accessible to all types of readers, where it describes the historical relationship between music and medicine, explains the physiological processes that make it possible to hear and understand music, the emotional nature of music and its psychological aspect, the way in which we understand music and its meanings, both individually and collectively; how it builds us a personal and cultural identity, and how it acts as an elixir against pain, among other topics. Rarely do we have the opportunity to read a book that masterfully brings together the arts and sciences to explain what it is and how the soundtrack of our own lives shapes us. Highly recommended!