IHTP Reading List
Everyone is welcome to this IHTP Reading List Page!
Although this Reading List Page is compiled for students of the International Harp Therapy Program, it is an extensive listing of a wide variety of books relating to harp studies, the therapeutic power of music, and much, much more – so consequently is likely to be of interest to many visitors to this website.
Note: Only a small selection of the books are available from this website, but some of the others listed have direct links through to Amazon and their Marketplace traders.
Note for IHTP Students:
Remember: you need to produce 12 book reports, which should include all seven of the Required Reading items.
Please choose the others from the ‘Highly Recommended’ section, or from the A-Z and ‘by category’ sections below.
Check out the special ‘IHTP Reading List Bundle’ offer for significant savings!
(Offer also available to non-IHTP students.)
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Harp Therapy Manual: Cradle of SoundBy C. TourinThis 600-page Harp Therapy Manual is widely regarded as the most complete and comprehensive book ever offered in the ever-expanding field of harp therapy. The book comes with the Heavens’ Seven CD enclosed Price $95.00 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
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Illuminations Healing Music Book/CDBy C. TourinThis 140-page spiral-bound music book contains 25 songs, mostly original compositions written by Christina Tourin – each arranged at Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced levels, and suiting different sizes and types of harp.
Prices: There is also a Illuminations CD and/or audio-download that will help in learning the pieces. CD $15.00 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – |
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Music and Soulmaking This resource explores fascinating new avenues in music therapy, providing concrete examples of the effect music can have on a wide range of patients, with diseases as varied as Alzheimer’s and Down’s Syndrome. Price $50.00 |
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Color My World: Blue Series This is part of the Color My World with Harp program. Included along with the DVD are a set of special music-cards containing 18 songs. The DVD shows the fingering, notes, chords and provides accompaniment. Plus there’s a special video to show to your group or harp circle while you play the music. * You do not need to write a report on this compilation. Price $49.00 |
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The Healing Musician This guide is for anyone who wants to play live healing music to the ailing at their bedside, and with true empowerment. Price $30.00 |
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Grace Notes A book about Tami Briggs’s profound and deeply spiritual experiences playing harp at the hospital and hospice bedside. Price $25.00 |
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At the Heart of the Matter This book introduces helpers who are not professional counselors to the fundamental theory and essential skills of helping interaction: centering, listening, reflecting, responding, and asking questions. Price $20.00 |
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Buy all the Required Reading items above at a Special Bundle Price!Substantial savings can be made when you purchase all the above required reading materials at one time. As well as a ‘Bundle Price’ reduction when compared with adding up all the individual prices, you save on shipping charges too! Check out the Special IHTP Reading List Book Bundle page – here |
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The following books are ‘Highly Recommended’ but not required readingThe ‘Highly Recommended’ books below (most of which we don’t have in stock) are available, usually both as secondhand as well as new, from Amazon.com and their MarketPlace Traders. |
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Iona Inspirations – Healing Music Book+CDBy C. Tourin A music-book of 15 original Celtic-inspired compositions, with arrangements for beginners to advanced harp players – including some additional arrangements for flute and cello, plus guitar/keyboard chords. Also includes: Prices: |
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Therapeutic Harp 3-DVD SetBy S. Williams In this 3-DVD documentary, Vibroacoustic Harp Therapy (VAHT) expert, Sarajane Williams, M.A., a licensed psychologist and accomplished author, accounts the utilization of VAHT on clients with various symptoms. Part 1: Ancient Legacy Total 2 hrs.43 mins. Price $79.95 |
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Healing At The Speed of SoundBy Don Campbell and Alex Doman Available from Amazon.com |
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The Art of Conversation Through Serious Illness: Lessons for CaregiversBy Richard McQuellon and Michael Cowan Available from Amazon.com |
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Being MortalBy Atul Gawande Available from Amazon.com |
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The Mozart EffectBy Don Campbell Available from Amazon.com |
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Music: Physician for Times to ComeBy Don Campbell Available from Amazon.com |
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TA Today: A New Introduction to Transactional AnalysisBy Ian Stewart and Vann Joines Available from Amazon.com |
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Sound Spirit: Pathway to FaithBy Don Campbell Available from Amazon.com |
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The Mythic HarpBy S. Williams Available from Amazon.com |
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Good VibrationsBy S. Williams Available from Amazon.com |
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| Don’t forget your local Library! You can often borrow many of the books listed on this page from the library. If you find some of those below are out of print and consequently is hard to find a copy to buy then the Library service is certainly worth trying. |
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Note for IHTP Students:
Remember: you need to produce 12 book reports, which should include all seven of the Required Reading items.
Please choose the others from the ‘Highly Recommended’ section above, or from the A-Z and ‘by category’ sections below.
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 – Marily Peterson
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Biocybernetics of Emotion Communication – Manfred Clynes, D. Sc.
Biomedical foundations of music as therapy – D.B. Taylor
Body Stories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy – Andrea Olsen
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Care of the Soul – Thomas Moore
Catching the Thread – Sufism, Dreamwork and Jungian Psychology – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Chasing Daylight – 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
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Death: The final stages of Growth – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff – Richard Carolson, Ph.D.
Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life – Ira Byock, MD
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Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within – Kenny Werner
Embraced by the Light – Betty Eadie
Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
Energy Medicine – Donna Eden
Enneagram Transformations – Don Richard Riso
The Enneagram and NLP: A Journey of Evolution – Anne Linden and Murray Spalding
Energy Medicine – Donna Eden
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Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer – John Diamond, M.D.
Facing Death and Finding Hope: a guide to the emotional and spiritual care of the dying – Christine Longaker (a student of Sogyal Rinpoche)
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 – L Sumner
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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
In Search of the Lost Chord – Jonathan Goldman (founder of the Sound Healers Assoc.)
Infinite Mind – Dr. Valerie Hunt
Instant Rapport – Michael Brooks
Introduction to Medical Terminology – Marge Bergstrom
Introduction to the Musical Brain – Don Campbell
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Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork – Deane Juhan
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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 – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
Life Outside the Physical Body, and Colour: The teachings and lectures of Helio-Arcanophus,founder of the Atlanteans
Listening for Wellness – Pierre Sollier (a student of Dr: Alfred Tomatis)
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Making Music for the Joy of It – Stephanie Judy
Making Music with the Young Handicapped Child: A Guide for Parents – E. Streeter
May I Have This Dance? – Joyce Rupp
Methods of Utilizing Prescriptive Sound – Alana Woods
Music and Miracles – compiled by Don Campbell
Music and Sound in the Healing Arts – John Beaulieu
Music and The Brain – Arthur Harvey, Ph.D.
Music and the Elemental Psyche – R. J. Stewart
Music & Your Mind; Listening with a New Consciousness – Helen Bonny and Louis Savary
Music for the Handicapped Child – Juliette Alvin
Music in Medicine – Manfred Clynes, D. Sc.
Music Therapy. An Art Beyond Words – Bunt, Leslie
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
Musician’s Survival Manual: A Guide to Preventing and Treating Injuries in Instrumentalists – Richard Norris, M.D.
Musicworks – The Canadian Journal of Sound Exploration
My Grandfather’s Blessings – Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
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 – 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
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Sacred Sounds – Ted Andrews
Saved by the Light (also At Peace in the Light and The Secrets of the Light) – Dannion Brinkley
Sensing, Feeling, and Action – Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Serpent of Light – Dunvalo Malchezidek
Sing Your Body – Susan Gallagher Borg
Sounding the Inner Landscape – Kay Gardner
Sounds of Healing – Mitchel Gaynor, MD
Spiritual Economics – Eric Butterworth
Stories for the Third Year, Stories that Heal – Wallas, Leigh
Structure into Magic – Anthony Robbins
Soul Prints: Your Path to Fulfillment – Marc Gafni
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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
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.
The Enneagram and NLP: A Journey of Evolution – 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 Healing Energies of Music – Hal Lingerman
The Healing Light – Agnes Sanford
The Healing Sound of Music – Mucci
The Hidden Face of Music – Herbert Whone
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
The Power of Intention – 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 – 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
There’s A Spiritual Solution to Every Problem – Wayne Dyer
Tomatis Effect: Overview of the Tomatis Method – Pierre Sollier
Tonal Awareness – Heiner Ruland
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 – Madeline LxEngle
What Survives? – Gary Doore, Ph. D.
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.
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You Are Your Instrument – Julie Lyonn Lieberman
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Zen Guitar – P. Toshic-Sudio
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By Category:
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 Healing 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 & Healing – Bernie Siegel
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The Ultimate Fake Book 4th Edition with over 1200 songs – compiled by Hal Leonard Publishing
A Classified Song Listing which lists according to the songs’ years (1920, 1930, etc.), as well as by category: Show Tunes, Movie Hits, Polkas, Latin, etc. The book is for all instruments in the key of C, and most arrangements look fairly easy to perform.
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