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Music impacts mankind in ways that are personal and require psychological explanation: music energizes, calms, surprises, spreads happiness and shapes our emotional states. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.225.101.245 (talk) 07:48, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Music is a medium that connects people. It knows no language and has no boundaries. Music just consists of emotions. It is above and beyond all words. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 102.118.118.148 (talk) 07:59, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Music and Emotions
Does Music help us to deal with our diverse emotions?

- What genre of music helps and when?

- Do we have to understand vocals or musical instruments to really enjoy a melody?

- Do we listen to Music to numb our emotions? COMS4112 (talk) 07:06, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Types of Music Therapy
Bonny method of guided imagery and music

Helen Lindquist Bonny was a music therapist of Swedish origin, who has developed an approach to music therapy that involves Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) in the 1970s. This method uses selected sequences of classical music to support the generation of and movement through inner experiences. During that intervention, the patient is asked to focus on an image as a starting point to think and discuss any related problems. Mental imagery is used in order to help patients with physiological and psychological issues to cope with the difficulties they may be experiencing while listening to music.

Dalcroze Eurhymics

Also known as the Dalcroze method, was developed around 1905 by a Swiss musician Emile Jaques-Dalcroze a professor of harmony at the Geneva Conservatory, who was convinced that the conventional system of training professional musicians was radically wrong. This method focuses on rhythm structure and movement of expression in the learning process. It consists of concentrating on a particular rhythm and moving the body according to it, to train the ear and vocal or instrumental improvisation. The Dalcroze method is said to improve physical awareness which helps patients with motor difficulties.

Kodaly

Zoltàn Kodàly was a prominent composer of the Hungarian folk music. In the 20th century, the Kodaly method, technically known today is a way of developing musical skills and teaching musical concepts beginning in very young children. According to this method, music teachers should emphasize musical material that is connected to their students' culture and heritage. It emphasizes on learning by singing, hand signs, learning of musical notes, collaboration and culture. It has been observed that this method helps to improve intonation, rhythm and music literacy as well as developing perceptual function and motor skills in a therapeutic setting.

Neurologic music therapy (NMT)

NMT is a music therapy based on neuroscience, more precisely the perception and production of music and its influence on the function of the brain and behaviors. The Neurologic Music Therapist uses standardized techniques to address non-musical goals such as speech, physical movement, cognition and other functional abilities. The therapist focuses on the music as therapy, emphasizing specific elements of music in the construction of therapeutic exercises

Nordoff-Robbins

In the beginning of 1958, Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins developed the Nordoff-Robbins music therapy which is based on the belief that everyone possesses a sensitivity to music that can be utilized for personal growth and development. In this form of treatment, clients take an active role in creating music together with their therapists. Nordoff and Robbins worked with children affected by autism, mental disorders, emotional disturbances, developmental delays and other learning difficulties, using music as the means of therapy.

Orff-Schulwerk

The Orff method, also known as Orff-Schulwerk or Music for Children, is an approach to music education conceived by the German composer Carl Orff which was conceived in the 1920s and 1930s. This approach was to help children with developmental delays and disabilities, following the realization that medicine alone was not sufficient. Furthermore it lays emphasis on education (“schulwerk” translates from German to “schoolwork”) and uses music to improve the learning ability of children. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.136.75.243 (talk) 17:23, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

The impact of Music on the brain
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Music is a tool for arousing emotions and feelings and it is far more powerful than language. An increased interest in how the brain processes musical emotion can be attributed to the way in which it is described as a “language of emotion” across cultures. Be it within films, live orchestras, concerts or a simple home stereo, music can be so evocative and overwhelming that it can only be described as standing halfway between thought and phenomenon.

Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion. The brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds that, in effect, creates an entirely new system of meaning. The appreciation of music is tied to the ability to process its underlying structure and the ability to predict what will occur next in the song.

Skilled composers manipulate the emotion within a song by knowing what their audience’s expectations are, and controlling when those expectations will (and will not) be met. This successful manipulation is what elicits the chills that are part of any moving song. Music involves subtle violations of timing and, because we know through experience that music is not threatening, these violations are ultimately identified as a source of pleasure. The expectation builds anticipation, which, when met, results in the reward reaction.

Music has the ability to conjure up images and feelings that need not necessarily be directly reflected in memory. The overall phenomenon still retains a certain level of mystery; the reasons behind the ‘thrill’ of listening to music is strongly tied in with various theories based on synesthesia. Certain musicians have the ability to create pieces of music which are brimming with emotional quality, and others simply cannot. Be it classics from the Beatles and Stevie Wonder or fiery riffs from Metallica and Led Zeppelin, the preference for a certain type of music has an effect on its very experience. It could be this heightened level of experience in certain people and musicians that allows them to imagine and create music that others simply cannot, painting their very own sonic image. 102.114.192.218 (talk) 17:45, 24 February 2022 (UTC)