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Dec 18, 2014 · There is an expanding field of research into how making or listening to music can improve wellbeing. As a spontaneous, social, creative nonverbal process unfolding in real time, musical improvisation between individuals is a unique psychological phenomenon distinct from other areas of musical activity. It may therefore have an influence on health or wellbeing distinct from other musical ...
- Raymond Ar MacDonald, Graeme B Wilson
- 2014
Feb 1, 2022 · To make both the origins and consequences of stress more concrete, we searched for literature in common online databases. 2 To provide a theoretical framework on the relationship between music and stress, we mainly used the rationales of two recent meta-analytic reviews on the effects of music interventions and music therapy on stress-related outcomes (de Witte et al., 2020, de Witte et al ...
The purpose of this study was to expand the previous work in three major ways. First, the stress-reducing effects of music listening versus musical improvisation on a xylophone were compared. Second, psychophysiological measures of stress were utilized in addition to self-report measures.
The behaviours and interactions that constitute improvisation during music therapy are clearly defined. Improvisation in music therapy is seen to have specific benefits for particular populations including the amelioration of neurological damage, improvements in mental health conditions, reductions in stress and anxiety, and improved ...
- MacDonald RAR, Wilson GB
- Musical improvisation and health: a review
- Journal Article
- 2014
Music Therapy. Experimental Design: Pre/during/posttest: Adolescent boys (N = 13) aged 11–16 (M = 13, SD NR) with emotional, behavioral, and mood related disorders; race/ethnicity NR: Residential Setting: Reduce impulsivity behaviors: Instructional music therapy and Improvisational music therapy (16 sessions total)
Dec 9, 2020 · More specifically, synchronization in music therapy may refer to both the way music therapists intervene within different kinds of interventions, and to a specific music therapy technique for musical improvisation developed by Bruscia (1987), which can help music therapists to resonate emotions and/or expressions in the music or resonate non-verbal behavior. In this study, we consider ...
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The stress system. The stress system can be considered as a highly important and preserved system in human beings. In physiology and medicine, the general definition of stress is introduced by Selye (Citation 1956): ‘Stress is a general activation reaction to a stimulus that could mean both a challenge (in a positive way) and a threat (in a negative sense)’ (p. 32).
