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の Music therapy is the beneficial use of music and mysical elements bya professional music
therapist to prgmote, maintain, and restore the mental
beneficial for a wide variety of persons régardless of age, ability, or musical background.
2 What we call "music thefāpy" today datěsBack to ancient Greece. The writings of Aristotle and
ato refer to the healing influence of music on health and behavior. But it was not uhtil the 20th
century that music thérapy was first used professionally to ánswera need for forms of treatmenf' G-?
that were different from conyentional practices. One of the first significant uses"6f music therapy
was to help relieve thousands of World War I veterans of the traumá known as "combat a
3 Although theré are different approaches to the ise of music in therapy, impoftánt "to all
approaches is the development of a close, relationship between the patient and the therapist. As a
general rule. both the patiént and_the" therapist take an active _part in the sessions by playing,
singing and"listening to music. I The therapist does not" teach the patient to sing or play an
instrument, nor does he or she play music all the time to entertain the patient. Rather, patients are
encouraged to use accessible percussion and various other instruments and their own voices to
enjoy the world of sotind and to create a musical language of their own.
patients musicaliy, the therapist is able to give them a meaningful musical experienēe, 1a Whatever
form the therapy takes, the therapist aims to bring about positive changes in a patient's behavior
and emotional health.
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