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The use of music as therapy has taken place for centuries, as early as ancient Greece. Apollo, for example, is the Greek god of music and medicine, which shows that the two have been linked since at least ancient Greek times. Music Therapy is practiced even in biblical times, when David was thought to play the harp to rid Saul-like of an evil spirit.

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DEMONSTRATIVE AND THEORETICAL VIDEO BY THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP

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DEMONSTRATIVE AND THEORETICAL VIDEO BY THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP

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Music Therapy as we know it today began in the wake of World Wars I and II. It was then that musicians (especially in the UK) would travel to hospitals to play music for soldiers who suffered emotional and physical trauma. French cellist Juliette Alvin pioneered clinical music therapy in Britain in the '60s, and is still considered the therapy's strongest influencing factor.

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Batista, Dana 9-760-462

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Music therapy: a type of expressive arts therapy that uses music to improve and maintain the physical, psychological, and social well-being of individuals, involves a broad range of activities, such as listening to music, singing, and playing a musical instrument.

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Thanks to the variety of responses that music produces (cognitive, communicative, physical, psychological, sensitive, transcendental), music therapy has a controlled influence, among others, on:

🎶Motor skills.
🎶The memory.
🎶Attention.
🎶The creativity.
🎶Verbalization.
🎶The empowerment of the senses.
🎶Proprioception.
🎶The reduction of stress and anxiety.
🎶Brain stimulation.
🎶The immune system and biological rhythms.

By developing personalized treatments, music therapy responds to the particular needs of each person, adjusting exposure times, musical languages and sound resources. Music serves for anyone to connect with themselves and with others.

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Music therapy helps you cope with trauma.

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Music therapy may help with memory and stimulate your mind because of predictability, familiarity and feelings of security

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Music therapy can help decrease your pain, anxiety, fatigue and depression.

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Esquivel, Angélica 4-816-438

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Muñoz, César 9-760-1519

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Ortega, Angela  9-760-659

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Silva, Jorge 4-814-2490

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Music Therapy has the potential to affect an individual for the better, however, some conditions are irreversible. In some cases, Music Therapy can have a healing effect, and in others it can help slow deterioration. Depending on the topics being addressed within therapy, it may be necessary for the individual to undergo additional treatment, or to combine different types of treatment.

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A music therapist can work with a person individually, or with a group of people. Therapy itself can take place in a variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, prisons, residences, and private workspaces depending on the needs of the participants. Each therapist will have a different way of working and the structure of the session will largely depend on the nature of the issues being explored.

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Your music therapist may encourage you to participate by singing or playing an instrument and may ask you to express how the music being played makes you feel. Sometimes, other sensory supports (e.g. feathers) may be introduced; this can happen especially when it comes to children or people with disabilities. Some music therapists may ask you to put together a piece of music or write a song.

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MUSIC THERAPY 🎶 Group members in order of presentation: Dana Batista, César Muñoz, Angélica Esquivel, Jorge Silva, Angela Ortega.

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Music Therapy Department at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.  

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Improvising, adapting and responding instantly is the key to happiness.✨

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Music therapists use a variety of techniques depending on the needs of individuals, some of them:

🎵Singing: Singing can help develop articulation and breath control.

🎵 Rhythm-based activities: mimicking a rhythm, or making up one of your own, can help develop coordination and range of motion.

🎵Playing instruments: Playing an instrument can help refine motor and coordination skills.

🎵Composing songs Composing music can also help foster a greater sense of self-awareness.

🎵Improvisation: Providing the opportunity to express yourself in a creative way through musical improvisation can help when words fail.

🎵Listening: Can help develop cognitive skills and encourages memory and attention.