Music Therapy

[redragon]

There have been many cases in which music can act as 'therapy.' For example, last week, our band instructer had said that "he was in a really bad mood," (he wouldn't tell us why) "and our playing cheered him up."

Then, my dad was in a particularly bad mood and i played the piano. My dad became much more cheery. I just found this interesting.

I'd be interested in any other cases, or, if you know why this happens...

[concerto_love]

it's true that playing music can put you in a better mood.
When I'm in a quarrel with cai, we usually play a duet sonata for recorder and piano and then we can back to our normal friendship, because it's really easy to forgive someone when you such in a good mood. 

I heard that in NAFA (Nanyang University of Fine Arts-Singapore) and UPH (Pelita Harapan University-Indonesia) one of they study program is music therapy.
Is there any study program like that too in your country?

[cai hong]

it's true that playing music can put you in a better mood.
When I'm in a quarrel with cai, we usually play a duet sonata for recorder and piano and then we can back to our normal friendship, because it's really easy to forgive someone when you such in a good mood. 

not true. Mine were never been better after playing a duet sonata with you.

[brianhoberg]

It's been said that music can help regulate your bio-rhythms to the point that it can affect mood. Take for example, classical music itself. The tones, harmonics, and rhythm of the piece can affect an individuals heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, and has even helped those with anxiety and depression. I know they have used classical music within operating rooms here locally in order to calm the staff down as well as assist patients with their biological rhythms while "under the knife". Not sure how it all works, but it evidently is effective in some areas of health and science.

[bellywelly]

yes, i've heard about music therapy, and it's something that is studied at universities around my area, i've heard. (i live in Sydney) my piano teacher once said that she would've took music therapy as her subject in uni if her parent's didn't think she'd be working with psycotic people...which is kinda sad, i would say.

i heard that music thearpy studies about how music can help people with mental illness recover better or someting like that. i'm actually quite interested, as im interested in music (duh) and how the human brain works (psychology). But it requires really high marks to study that...and i've always been behind the others in grades at school