Music Therapy Research Paper

The topic that I choose for my project is Music Therapy. I choose this topic because I really enjoy music, I grew up listening to all types of genre of music, my father was really interested in music which influenced me. I used to play flute in grade school, I was in the choir and I was in a few musical plays. My father was in a band for years and then when I was born he would sing to me every night, and I just grew up to like music. There is all kinds of music for different occasions and can put you in different moods. I listen to all kinds of genre of music, it puts me in a different mood and music can also remind me of different memories that have happened in my life whether it’s good or bad. I sing, I dance, I use my lap as a drum, …show more content…
Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, they all wrote how music affects health and behavior and aboriginal tribes from all over have used music as part of their healing arts (Health Services). It formally began after World War I and World War II when community musicians went to Veteran hospitals around the country to play for the Veterans suffering from both physical and emotional trauma from the wars. The patient’s physical and emotional responses to music led the doctors to request the hiring of musicians by the hospitals (History of Music Therapy). The earliest known music therapy appearance was in 1789 in an unsigned article in Columbian Magazine which was titled “Music Physically Considered”. In the early 1800s there were writing on the therapeutic value of music that appeared in two medical dissertations the first one was published by Edwin Atlee and the second by Samuel Mathews. The 1800s also saw the first recorded music therapy intervention and the first recorded systematic experiment in music therapy. In 1903 Eva Augusta Vescelius founded the National Society of Musical Therapeutics. Another founder named Isa Maud IIsen started a National Association for Music in Hospitals in 1926. Years later, the first music therapy college training programs were created in the 1940s. The first academic program in music therapy was established in 1944 by Michigan State University and then other universities started to establish the same programs including University of Kansas, Chicago Musical College, and College of the Pacific and Alverno College. National Association for Music Therapy was founded in New York on June 2, 1950. American Association for Music Therapy was established in 1971, this organization was similar to National Association for Music Therapy but they had different philosophy, education and approaches. Certification Board for Music