Development of Music as a Therapy

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Development of Music as a Therapy     Running head: Development of Music as a Therapy Development of Music as a Therapy Lorie Ceal Grand Canyon University Intro to Human Communication Theory June 21, 2009 Development of Music as a Therapy         The development of music as a therapy spans a vast amount of time. On the History of Music Therapy website we discover that music has always been used for therapeutic reasons. The evidence lies in; “cathartic and hypnotic uses of music in primitive tribes, Apollo – who was the god of music and medicine, drumming healers of India at Delphi, and cave drawings of musical shamans”. (History of Music Therapy, n.d.) There seems to have always been a connection between music and emotion. It has a history of influence on both the emotional and physical aspects of one’s health. “Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle all wrote about how music
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affects health and behavior.”  (United Health Services, 2009) Plato stated that musical training was important because “rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful”. (History of Music Therapy, n.d.)Even though music was thought of as a healing agent for body, mind and soul in ancient times, according to the History of Music Therapy, It is a “fairly recent phenomenon in Western culture”. (History of Music Therapy, n.d.) Dr Richard Brown wrote the earliest English text in regards to music and medicine, in ...

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This is a well written essay that contains lots of quotes from a number of sources. I would have liked the writer to have gone into more detail in places (see sticky notes above). They could have also extended the amount of references they referred to as it is quite a limited list.