Articles on Music - Dr. John Diamond

The Diamond Method for Music: An Introduction

The Diamond Method for Music offers a totally new understanding of the relationship between music and health. More importantly, it gives us unprecedented insight into how we can use music to benefit ourselves and society in general.

Dr. Diamond’s Books on Music for Health

Music is central to Dr. Diamond's approach to holistic health, and he has written several important books which are essential reading for anyone interested in the subject.

Videos: Music for Healing Series

Short, informal talks, revealing different facets of Dr. Diamond's unique approach to using music for healing.

“The True Musician: Inspired by Orpheus”

I hear it in the deep heart’s core. Yeats (“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”) It is said that Orpheus preached with song.

“God is…”

God is Brahms, Brahms is God, and Schnabel, and the piano,

“The Role of the Performer – and How to Achieve It”

Everyone needs to be healed – to be made whole. To be utterly one with the Soul within. And it is, I maintain, the primary role of the performer to find the Soul of the composer and reveal it to the audience, that they may be better able to find their own.

“Music is Healing – and Healing is Music”

Every day in my meditation, I place my hands over my thymus and pray: Help me to help You to heal.

“Monteux and the Spirit World”

As he lay dying, the great conductor Pierre Monteux stated, “When I see Brahms, I must apologize to him for the way I have played his beautiful music.”

Video: A Song of Love

Dr. Diamond shares a therapeutic song, a setting of Lewis Carroll's beautiful poem "A Song of Love," an example of the compositional process he calls lilting. This poem gets to the heart of what Dr. Diamond terms Matrophilia, the love of the mother, the foundation of his work.

“As in Life, So in Music”

“It’s All in the Music” is the title of the book by Doris Monteux of her husband Pierre, the great conductor.