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The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) was formed in 1998 as a merger between the National Association for Music Therapy (NAMT) and the American Association for Music Therapy (AAMT). AMTA united the music therapy profession for the first time since 1971.
The first published study in music therapy appeared in 1789 and was called “Music Physically Considered” (author unknown). Dissertations on the subject published by American medical researchers included one in 1804 by Edwin Augustus Atlee and a second in 1806 by Samuel Mathews.
Music Therapy draws from a variety of sources stretching back to the Ancient Greeks, Native American culture and philosophy. It has come into more current thinking and practice following the trauma of both the First and Second World Wars.
Read all about it…information about music therapy explodes! In 1981, AAMT’s journal Music Therapy was first published, closely followed by NAMT’s Music Therapy Perspectives in 1982 and the International Newsletter of Music Therapy in 1983.
Evidence for “early music therapy” will be discussed in four broad historical–cultural divisions: preliterate cultures; early civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel; Greek Antiquity; Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque.
Byers produces a comprehensive history and analysis of the music therapy profession, followed by advancing a compelling concern pertaining to its diversity. She summarizes successfully the profession’s history, delineated by decades, with its beginnings in the 1930s and its evolution traced into the twenty-first century (ending in 2015).
Music therapy, an allied health profession, "is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program."
Around 1850, the emergence of an “active” form of “music therapy” (in the broadest sense) is recognizable; during the same time period, physicians began taking their patients’ musical preferences, education, and disposition into account.
Music as Medicine is the first book to establish the whole shape of the history of music therapy in a systematic and scholarly way. It addresses the problem of defining what music therapy has meant in different cultures and periods, and sets the agenda for future research in the subject.
Music therapy has a relatively recent history, having developed since the mid-20th century. It is usually performed in structured sessions by appropriately qualified musicians or practiioners and aims to develop motor skills, interaction and sheer enjoyment of music by the active participation in the creation of music by the therapist and group ...