Abstract
Music and health: what interventions for what results?
Highlights
For several decades, music has been used more and more frequently and consciously as a mean of care to reduce or stabilize symptoms and/or complications arising therefrom
The purposes of this article are to define the basic characteristics that therapeutic interventions with music have in common and to categorize the types of intervention based on the use of music
In many contexts in which the therapeutic use of music is put into practice, we can observe a considerable heterogeneity of interventions (Gold, 2009), a low level of definition of the therapeutic proposals and some methodological weaknesses in the evaluation of the effectiveness of such interventions
Summary
Music therapy and health of the music therapist is to lay down a program of music listening This task can be carried out either according to the choices made by the patient/client, or according to the structural characteristics of music and its parameters in relation to the objective of the treatment. In the case of music listening based on the “music medicine” approach, pieces are identified on the basis of the structural characteristics of music and their parameters, depending on the objective of the treatment. The objective is to improve the person’s mood and motivation, promote socialization and stimulate sensory, motor and cognitive aspects in general These are activities that lack a therapeutic rationale, they are usually performed in groups, where there is neither a real therapeutic setting nor intervention strategies aimed at achieving specific targets. The proposed activities are generally structured and consist of musical interaction
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