Music as Medicine: How to Harness its Therapeutic Power, with Daniel Levitin (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm head of programming, Conor Boyle. Today's episode is part two of our recent live event in London Smith Square Hall with Daniel Leviton. He's a neuroscientist, musician, and author of the new book, Music as Medicine. how we can harness its therapeutic power. He was joined in conversation by journalist and broadcaster Riddle La Shah, and music was played by violinist Anna Mitchell. If you're an Intelligent Square Plus subscriber, you can get access to the full conversation right now. Now without further ado, let's go to the episode.

think you were gonna play us a piece that was going to talk about the relationship of music and pain. It's a piece called Rachine Dove. Let's hear a little bit of that. So just tell us a little bit about it. You explained the piece really beautifully earlier. Thank you. Yeah, so it's called Rotine Dove and it's a really old Irish song. M very popular back in well, it's from the sixteenth century.

Um but it basically means black rose and it's a love song. But I suppose the look song is a bit of a disguise. Where Ireland and the song is about Ireland and one's love for one's country.

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