Essays on Music Therapy

Have you ever spent three hours studying but still can’t remember anything? You panic because tomorrow is the day of your examination. Have you ever stared at your clock at 3 a.m. but still can’t fall asleep? Your eyes look like a panda’s the next...

The first question I asked myself on my way to the performance was how much do I really know about music and live performances? I have always exemplified any musical performance as a communication of the rhythmic and instrumental variety of music. For my concert...

Have you ever had an interest in helping others through music? Do you know how to play guitar, piano or even sing? Well Music Therapy is the job for you. Helping others who are sick, in the hospital or even just need a day brightener...

Music therapy is the clinical-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. Usually, music therapists primarily help clients improve their health in several domains, such as cognitive functioning,...

This research refers to listeners’ experience of music that evokes sadness. Sadness is a very important emotion that can be observed to all people. It is typically assumed to be undesirable and is therefore usually avoided in everyday life. Yet the question remains: Why do...

Nowadays, current society is familiar with music more than in any other time in history because of the youth. A big percentage of the young listen to music everyday while performing their daily activities for many of the activities they perform. However, it is necessary...

Prior studies implementing music-movement programs were largely focused on preschool education and supported the effectiveness of these programs on preschoolers’ locomotor development and the rhythmic ability, and cognitive development of preschool children. Moreover, Tsapakidou, Zachopoulou and Zografou (2001) basing on Orff (Keetman, 1974) and Dalcroze...

Everyone likes to listen to music at least every once in a while. Music is an important factor which can effect whether a costumer is going to like and/or have fun at a restaurant or not. As music by itself is very general there are...

Ludwig Van Beethoven, one of the world’s greatest musical virtuosos to step foot on earth, left us with some of today’s most mesmerizing pieces of work. Born in Germany, Beethoven was taught to play piano and violin from a very young age. By the age...

When considering the subject of music and its effect on a person’s emotions, the focus will, often, turn toward all the positive influences music has had on a person. Perhaps music is what got them through their last break up, or they will be completely...

Have you ever spent three hours studying but still can’t remember anything? You panic because tomorrow is the day of your examination. Have you ever stared at your clock at 3 a.m. but still can’t fall asleep? Your eyes look like a panda’s the next...

Human beings coexist with music at all times. This is an art that makes us enjoy pleasant times, encourages us to remember facts from the past and makes us share emotions. Music is considered among the elements that cause more pleasure in life because it...

“Lord, to thee each night and day” was written in the Baroque era by George Frideric Handel as part of his work, Theodora. The Baroque era is classified as the years 1600-1750; following the Renaissance and leading to the Classical period. The era is often...

Introduction In a modern era, people nowadays can’t get away from listening to music in any genre. Music have become a medium as it can influences people performance in everyday activities including shopping and other activities. Sometimes, they do not care about but the mechanisms...

The healing influence of music was talked about and proved from long ago. Nowadays, the research done in the field of music therapy show the benefits obtained with the help of the new measuring instruments or new discoveries in neuroscience. Researchers mainly focus on quantifying...

Introduction I have decided to explore the connection music has with the brain and its affects it has on communication in varied environments. In identifying this connection, I wanted to explore this connection in different instances so I could identify any positive or negative effects...

Music is a form of art which has accompanied humankind since the origins of our species. Starting from the early primitive instruments used by our cave-dwelling ancestors, and ending up with modern synthesizers and computer programs that create new musical sounds, human beings have constantly...

Investment in music is gaining over classic cars and fine art. The rate of growth in wine is 9.6 per cent and stamps 5.3 per cent. Photograph and musical instruments are new, less established in comparison but are growing. The returns on musical instruments was...

“ In the recent article “Music Only Helps You Concentrate if You’re Doing the Right Kind of Task”, by Nick Perham, it explains that music won’t help unless the task requires creativity or mental rotation. “The assumption that listening to music when working is beneficial...