MUFHL 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Blood Pressure, Heart, Cortisol

• School: American River College
• Department: Music Fundamentals/History and Literature
• Course: MUFHL 300
• Professor: Hughes

Document Summary

Perceptual awareness awareness of others whether it is a group session or with the therapist awareness of vibration is the first step, especially for more severely handicapped patients and music/sound is created through vibration. The client must be able to feel the music to understand cause and effect and the production of sound. Physical/psychological stimulation music is physically stimulating and can be. Communicative ability the use of music in a therapeutic way to encourage contact exciting conversely, it can be calming and relaxing. Taking turns, sharing, reciprocal interaction, and vocal/verbal expressions emerge in music making. The earliest patterns of communication found in mother-baby interaction, where timing is an essential ingredient in the development of meaningful, pre-verbal communication, are found in music therapy interaction through shared music/making. Music provides a raw form of non-verbal communication, where the therapist uses the elements of music with this population to create communicative intentionality. Provides biomedical basis for interpreting music therapy.