Music therapy
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Music therapy is an allied health profession and a field of scientific research which studies correlations between the process of clinical therapy and biomusicology, musical acoustics, music theory, psychoacoustics, embodied music cognition, aesthetics of music, and comparative musicology. It is an interpersonal process in which a trained music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients to improve or maintain their health. Music therapists primarily help clients improve their observable level of functioning and self-reported quality of life in various domains (e.g., cognitive functioning, motor skills, emotional and affective development, behavior and social skills) by using music experiences (e.g., singing, songwriting, listening to and discussing music, moving to music) to achieve measurable treatment goals and objectives. Referrals to music therapy services may be made by a treating physician or an interdisciplinary team consisting of clinicians such as physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists.
Notable practitioners and authors
- Al-Farabi
- Juliette Alvin
- Helen Bonny
- E. Thayer Gaston
- Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins of Nordoff-Robbins
- Mary Priestley
- Concetta M. Tomaino
- Alfred A. Tomatis
See also
- Affective neuroscience
- Biomusicology
- Chronobiology
- Embodied music cognition
- Melodic intonation therapy
- Musical analysis
- Music cognition
- Music theory
- Music Therapy in Canada
- Music psychology
- Musical healing
- Psychoacoustics
- Psychoneuroimmunology
