Reading List
Required Reading
You can purchase many of the required books on the IHTP Reading List at the Emerald Harp Productions online shop, such as the required volumes Cradle of Sound – Harp Therapy Manual book and the Illuminations Healing Music book.
Non-native English speaking students: Our Affiliate Programs have compiled their reading lists as part of our restructuring Harp Therapy for the World. Students should follow their Affiliate IHTP Program’s selection of books. Many are now in your own language including the the following subjects: TA Today (A text on transactional analysis, a required text) Psychology and Counseling, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Music Therapy, Ethics, Empathic Listening, Vibrational Medicine and others.
Here are the various International reading lists: Dutch, German , French, Japanese, Danish to come). Please contact your Affiliate IHTP Director for books in your language.
Each Affiliate will have their own list but from below, you can count on many of the books from our previous required list.
Still required by all the programs are the following 4 items from Christina Tourin.
- Harp Therapy Cradle of Sound* – Christina Tourin. This is the central text of our program. You will be writing an ongoing review of assigned sections from this text throughout the program. Presently available as a PDF Download
- Illuminations Healing Music Book/MP3 Download
- Color My World – Your choice of 1 of the series OR the packet of 110 Therapeutic Cards. You may make your choice on the page at PlayHarp.com
- Creative Harping Video Series 1-10 – DVDs or streaming videos at PlayHarp.com
Illuminations Healing Music Book/MP3 Download – C. TourinRead the opening text in the Illuminations Healing Music Book and begin working on the following selections – any level: 1) Little Dove or Unite (Earth Element) These pieces have structure yet are unfamiliar (except Clair de Lune) and serve the various human elements. For the Metal Element, the Chanter or Scarborough Faire in the Dorian mode is appropriate. Price $50 – book with MP3 Download |
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Harp Therapy Manual with CD – Cradle of Sound – C.TourinPrice $95.00 Download PDF version with MP3 Files |
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You may choose one of the Color My World OR you can order the Therapeutic Card Set (110 songs) – by Christina Tourin (*be sure to send an email that you wish to have the card set instead of the CMW DVD set which has the 21 Songs – HarpRealm@gmail.com)Approx. 20 Beautiful Songs with a DVD to show you fingerings, chords, accompaniments and beautiful visuals that enhance the songs – especially for showing to people in assisted living while you are playing. Price $39.00 BUY HERE |
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From Behind the Harp – Music in End of Life Care – Jane Franz
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A Transpersonal Model of Music Therapy Deepening Practice – B. CrowePrice $27.00 Available from – Amazon.com
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TA Today: A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis [Paperback]by Ian Stewart (Author), Vann Joines (Author)
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The following books are highly recommended but not required |
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Music: Physician for Times to Come – D. Campbell AmazonThis book can be purchased by following this link |
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Sound Spirit: Pathway to Faith – D. Campbell AmazonThis book can be purchased by following this link
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The Mozart Effect – D. Campbell – Avon Books/Harper CollinsThis book can be purchased by following this link.
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Healing At The Speed of Soundby Don Campbell and Alex DomanAVAILABLE as hard copy, eBook and Enhanced eBook from – Amazon.com |
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Grace Notes by Tami BriggsAVAILABLE as paperback from Amazon.com |
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Therapeutic Harp 3-DVD Set – by S. Williams3 part documentary about the use of harps in healthcare settings. Part 1: Ancient Legacy Part II: Sound Science Part III: Clinical Applications Total 2 hrs.43 mins. Price $79.95 |
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The Mythic Harp – S. WilliamsFollowing this link |
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Good Vibrations – S. WilliamsFollow this web address
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Regarding the books, we ask that you have your own copy as you will be referring to them for years to come. Lots of times you can find used books on Amazon.com.
For your elective reading, please choose from these possibilities below, or ask about others.
Alphabetically Listed
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All I Really Needed to Know I learned in Kindergarten – Robert Fulghum
Anatomy Coloring Book – Kapit and Elson
Annie Stories – Brett, Doris
Articles on audition, immunology and therapeutic use of music – Bradford S. Weeks, M.D.
At Personal Risk: Boundary Violations – Marilyn Peterson
B
Bean, J. and Pied Piper – Oldfield, A. O.U.P. 1991 Cambridge
Biocybernetics of Emotion Communication – Manfred Clynes, D. Sc.
Biomedical foundations of music as therapy – D.B. Taylor (1997)
St. Louis, MO: Music ISBN 0-918812-94-1 (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
BodyStories – A Guide to Experiential Anatomy – Andrea Olsen
C
Care of the Soul – Thomas Moore
Catching the Thread – Sufism, Dreamwork and Jungian Psychology – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Chasing Daylight by Eugene O’Kelly
Collection – The Arts in Pscyotherapy – Pergamon Press
Coma – Artie Mindell
Coma Communications – Stan Tomandl and Ann Jacob
Conscious Evolution – Barbara Hubbard
Creates happy, smart and confident children – John M. Ortiz, Ph.D
Creative Healing – Michael Samuels and Mary Rockwood Lane
Cymatics – Jenny Hans
D
Death: The final stages of Growth – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff – Richard Carolson, Ph.D.
Dying Well – Ira Vyock
Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Live – Ira Byock, MD
E
Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within by Kenny Werner
Embraced by the Light – Betty Eadie
Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
Energy Medicine – Donna Eden
Enneagram Transformations – Don Richard Riso ISBN 0-395-65786-5
The Enneagram and NLP – A Journey of Evolution – Anne Linden, Murray Spalding, Metamorphous Press, Portland OR, ISBN 1-55552-042-1
Energy Medicine – Donna Eden
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Facets of a Diamond: Refelctions of a Healer – John Diamond, M.D. ISBN: 1-890995-17-7
Facing Death and Finding Hope – a guide to the emotional and spiritual care of the dying by Christine Longaker, a student of Sogyal Rinpoche( Tibetan Book of Living and Dying)
Feel the Fear – Susan Jeffries
Final Gifts – Callanan & Kelley
Frogs Into Princes – Brinder-Brandler
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Good Grief – Granger E. Westberg
Guided Imagery and Music in the Institutional Setting – Sumner, L. Magnamusic Baton (avail. Schott).
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Harmonic Chant – David Hykes
Harp Full of Stars – Joel Andrews
Harpers Diary – Christine Grace Magnussen
Healing and Regeneration Through Music – Corinne Heline
Healing Sounds – The Power of Harmonics – Jonathan Goldman
Healing with Music and Color – Mary Bassano
Healing, Personal Growth and Empowerment – Gary Doore, Ph.D.
Hearts Code – Brinder-Brandler
Hidden Messages in Water (The)- Dr. Masaru Emoto
How We Die – Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter – Sherwin B. Nuland
How, Now, Shall We Live – Wayne Mueller
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Improvisational Models of Music Therapy – Bruscia, K.E
Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1987 (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
In Search of the Lost Chord – Jonathan Goldman, founder of the Sound Healer’s Assoc.
Infinite Mind – Dr. Valerie Hunt
Instant Rapport – Michael Brooks
Int’l Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, 1993 ISBN 0-918812-74-7
Introduction to Medical Terminlogy – Marge Bergstrom
Introduction to the Musical Brain – Don Campbell (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal – Rachel Naomi Rensen, M.D.
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Life After Life – Raymond Moody Jr.
Life Lessons by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
Life Outside the Physical Body, Colour and Reincarnation, Job’s Body, -A Handbook for Bodywork – Deane Juhan
Listening for Wellness by Pierre Sollier , a student of Dr: Alfred Tomatis
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Making Music for the Joy of It ST720- Stephanie Judy (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
Making Music with the Young Handicapped Child: A Guide for Parents E. Streeter,
Music Therapy Publications 1980.
May I Have This Dance? – Joyce Rupp
Methods of Utilizing Prescriptive Sound – Alana Woods
Music and Miracles – compiled by Don Campbell
Music and Miracles ST251 – Don Campbell (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
Music and Sound in the Healing Arts – John Beaulieu
Music and The Brain – Arthur Harvey, Ph.D. (May be out of print. Try finding it used.)
Music and the Elemental Psyche – R. J. Stewart (may be out of print – try finding it used)
Music & Your Mind; Listening with a New Consciousness – Helen Bonny and Louis Savary (NY: Station Hill Press, 1990)
Music for the Handicapped Child – Alvin, J.O.U.P. 1978
Music in Medicine – Manfred Clynes, D. Sc. (May be out of print. Try finding it used.)
Music Therapy (1966) Alvin, J.O.U.P. 1991
Music Therapy. An Art Beyond Words – Bunt, Leslie London: Routlege 1994 (new book, up to date, easy to read)
Music therapy for the Autistic Child – Warwick
Music Therapy in Action – Mary Priestley
Music Therapy in Palliative Hospice Care – Munroe
Music Therapy in the Treatment of Rett Syndrome – Montague, Janette, National Rett Syndrome Assoc.
Music Therapy with Hospitalized Children – Froelich
Music, Mind and Brain: The Neuropsychology of Music – Manfred Clynes D. Sc.
Music, Power, Creative Living – Barbara Anne Scarantino
Musical Qi Gong – Shen Wu
Musicians and Injuries http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeship/music.html
Musician’s Survival Manual: A Guide to Preventing and Treating Injuries in Instrumentalists Richard Norris, M.D. (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
Musicworks – The Canadian Journal of Sound Exploration
My Grandfather’s Blessings – Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, Soul Prints – Marc Gafni
My Voice Will Go With You – Erickson, Milton
The Mystic Spiral – Journey of the Soul – Jill Purce
Mysticism of Sound and Music – The Woman With the Alabaster Jar – Margaret Starbird
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NLP – Enneagram Transformations – Don Richard Riso
Nurturing Your Child with Music – How sound awareness
Nurturing Your Child With Music – John Ortiz
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On Music & Health, A Proven Way to Help You Integrate Mind, Body and Spirit – Mathew H.M. Lee and Joseph Nagler
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Please Understand Me – David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates
Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim – Edward Hays
Psychosynthesis, The Act of Will – Roberto Assagioli, M.D.
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Qigong for Health and Vitality – Michael Tse
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Reiki, Energy Medicine – Libby Barrett and Maggie Chambers
Rhythmic Language of Health and Disease – Mark Rider
Rhythmic Medicine – Music With a Purpose – Hoffman
Rhythms of Learning – Don Campbell (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
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Sacred Sounds – Ted Andrews Llewellyn Pub ISBN 087542-018-4
“Saved by the Light”, “At Peace in the Light” and “The Secrets of the LIght.” by Dannion Brinkley
Sensing, Feeling, and Action – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Serpent of Light – Dunvalo Malchezidek
Sing Your Body – Susan Gallagher Borg (Activity book and Tape available)
Sounding the Inner Landscape – Kay Gardner (A wonderful book if you can find it used – no longer in print – some have found it by going to: www.amazon.ca (Canadian Amazon) then they placed my order with a U.S. bookseller http://www.powells.com/) However, if you go directly to the Powell site it says that the book is not available. Powell’s is in Portland, Oregon. Another link for Sounding the Inner Landscape is www.half.com.
Sounds of Healing – Mitchel Gaynor, MD – Broadway Books ISBN 0767902653
Spiritual Economics by Eric Butterworth
Stories for the Third Year, Stories that Heal – Wallas, Leigh
Structure into Magic – Anthony Robbins
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TA Today – Stewart and Joine
Tales of Enchantment (Book of Metaphors) – Lankton, Stephen
Textbook of Performing Arts Medicine – Sataloff, Brandfonbrener, Lederman, eds. New York: Raven Press, 1990
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
The Bardic Source Book – Inspirational Legacy and teachings of the Ancient Celts – John Matthews
The Communication of Emotion: Theory of Sentics in Emotion, Theory, Research and Experience Manfred Clynes, D. Sc.
The Creation of Health – Carolyn Myss
The Diamond Color Meditation – John Diamond, M.D. ISBN: 1-890995-52-5
The Enneagram and NLP – A Journey of Evolution – Anne Linden
The Enneagram and NLP – Anne Linden and Murray Spalding
The Ethics of Caring; Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships – Kylea Taylor (Santa Cruz, CA: Hanford Mead, 1995)
The Evolution Angel – An Emergency Physician’s Lessons with Death and the Divine – Dr. Michael Abrams
The Field: The Quest For the Secret Force of the Universe – Lynne McTaggart, 2002
The Giant Within – Anthony Robbins
The Harmonics of sound, Color and Vibration – A System for Self-Awareness and Soul Evolution – Elias Demohan
The Harmonics of Sound, Color and Vibration – Elias DeMohan
The Healing Energies of Music – Hal Lingerman (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
The Healing Light – Agnes Sanford
The Healing Sound of Music – Mucci – Findhorn Press ISBN1-899171-33-9 www.crosswynd.com
The Hidden Face of Music – Herbert Whone (May be out of print. Try finding it used)
The Hidden Messages in Water – Dr. Masaru Emoto
The Hospice Choice – Marcia Lattanzi-Ticht
The Inner Game of Music – Barry Green and W. Timothy Gallwey
The Language of Medicine – Davi-Ellen Chabner
The Listening Book – W. A. Mathieu
The Music of Life – Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul – Jill Purce
The Perfect Wrong Note, Learning to trust your musical self – William Westney ISBN 1-57467-145-6
The Power of Intention by Dr.Wayne Dyer
The Practice Of The Presence Of God – Brother Lawrence
The Roar of Silence – Don Campbell
The Secret Lore of Music – The Hidden Power of Orpheus by Fabre d’Olivet
The Secret Power of Music – David Tame
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying – Sogyal Rinpoche
The Troubled Dream of Life – Daniel Cahallan
The Two of Music, Sound Psychology – John Ortiz
Therapeutic Metaphor – Gordon
Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within – Mills, Joyce and Crowley, Richard (tied in with NLP)
Therapeutic Touch – Janet Macrae
Therapy in Music for Handicapped Children – Nordoff, P. Robbins, C. London: Gollancz 1971.
There’s A Spiritual Solution to Every Problem – Wayne Dyer
Tomatis Effect – Overview of the Tomatis Method – Pierre Sollier (May be out of print – try finding it used)
Tonal Awareness – Heiner Ruland (this book is hard to find but sometimes it comes up as a used book. Check these links: 1 2
Toning: The Creative Power of the Voice – Laurel Elizabeth Keyes
Total Pain Management – Cicely Saunders and the Hospice Movement
Tree of Strings – A History of the Harp in Scotland – Keither Sanger & Alison Kinnaird
Tune Your Brain – Elizabeth Miles
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Uncommon Therapy – J. Hailey
Unlimited Powers – Anthony Robbins
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Walking on Water, by Madeline LxEngle
What Survives? – Gary Doore, Ph. D. (May be out of print. Try finding it used)
When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Harold S. Kushner
Where Is God When It Hurts? – Philip Yancy
Whose music? A Sociology of Musical Languages – Shepard, J. London 1977
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You Are Your Instrument – Julie Lyonn Lieberman (obtain from West Music, Amazon.com)
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Zen Guitar – P. Toshic-Sudio
On Grieving
How to Survive the Loss of a Love – Melba Colgrove
Grieving: The Pain & Promise – Deanna Edwards
Teenagers Face to Face With Bereavement – Karen Gravell
The Grief Recovery Handbook – John James
Teenagers Talk About Grief – June Cerza Kolf
A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
Beyond Grief – Carol Staudacher
Men & Grief – Carol Staudacher
Necessary Losses – Judith Viorst
Loss of the Ground Note – Vozenilek
Good Grief – Granger Westberg
Using Grief to Grow – Johnette Hartnett
The Funeral – Johnette Hartnett
Grief in the Workplace – Johnette Hartnett
Different Losses, Different Issues – Johnette Hartnett
Death Etiquette for the 90’s – Johnette Hartnett
Children & Grief – Johnette Hartnett
When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Harold Kushner
On Dying
Final Gifts – M. Callahan
Please Understand Me – David Kiersey
Death: The Final Stage of Growth – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
On Death & Dying – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
To Live Until We Say Goodbye – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Healing Into Life & Death – Steven Levine
Meetings at the Edge – Steven Levine
Who Dies? – Steven Levine
The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying – Sogyal Rinpoche
For Caregivers
Letting Go – Richard Boerstler
The Helping Relationship – Lawrence Brammer
How Can I Help? – Ram Dass
Coming Home – Deborah Duda
Healing the Dying – Mary Jane Linn
Home Care for the Dying – Deborah Whiting Little
Therapeutic Touch – Janet MacRae
On The Arts
Creativity & The Close of Life – CT Hospice
The Healinng Energies of Music – Hal Lingerman
Art as Medicine – McNiff
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
On Hospice
Hospice Resource Manual for Local Churches – John Abbott
A Hospice Handbook: A New Way to Care for the Dying – Michael Hamilton
Hospice & Ministry – Paul Irion
The Hospice Alternative – Anne Munley
The Hospice Movement – Sandol Stoddard
On Philosophy
The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl
Care of the Soul – Thomas Moore
Healing & the Mind – Bill Moyers
On AIDS
You Can Do Something About AIDS – Sasha Alyson
AIDS -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Borrowed Time – Paul Monette
AIDS: A Self-Care Manual – AIDS Project L.A.
On Self-Help
Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson – Joan Boryshenko
Minding the Body, Mending the Mind – Joan Boryshenko
Three Minutes a Day – Father John Catoir
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind – Deepak Chopra
Quantum Healing – Deepak Chopra
Anatomy of an Illness – Norman Cousins
The Healing Heart – Norman Cousins
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten – Robert Fulgham
Focusing – Eugene Gendlin
Surviving the Cure – Janet Henry
The Migraine Puzzle – Susan Borg
My Voice Will Go With You – Sidney Rosen
Love, Medicine & Miracles – Bernie Siegel
Peace, Love & Healinng – Bernie Siegel
The Ultimate Fake Book 4th Edition with over 1200 songs
In the front there is a Classified Song Listing which lists the songs according to the years (1920, 1930, etc.) as well as Show Tunes, Movie Hits, Polkas, Latin, etc etc. The book is for all instruments in the key of C, and most arrangements look fairly easy to perform.
For anyone interested, it can be ordered through Hal Leonard Corp. ISBN 0-7935-2939-5 or on their Website The cost is $49.95 plus shipping.
Or go to Amazon.com to get a used copy – one was available at $7.00 – another for $29.00 Click HERE for the link.