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Willem van de Wall
- Willem van de Wall pioneered the use of music therapy in state-funded facilities and wrote the first "how to" music therapy text, Music in Institutions (1936).
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The earliest known reference to music therapy appeared in 1789: an article in Columbian Magazine titled Music Physically Considered. The first recorded music therapy intervention & systematic experiments in music therapy were conducted in the 1800s.
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Apr 27, 2017 · I had initially thought that the earliest account of music therapy was from the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), who would prescribe different musical scales...
Feb 28, 2023 · Later in 1941, Harriet Ayer Seymour founded the National Foundation of Music Therapy. These were all crucial steps in the advancement and promotion of the concepts and ideology that is music therapy. Through articles, journals and educational courses, music therapy became accepted and established.
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The idea of using music for healing and changing health and behavior certainly goes as far back as the writings of Aristotle and Plato. In some cultures, (like Egyptian and Chinese) it goes back even farther. The earliest known reference to music therapy appeared in the late 18th century in an article in Columbian Magazine called "Music Physically ...
The idea of music therapy goes back thousands of years.Music was suggested as a way to benefit the human body in ancient Egyptian medical texts that date back as far as 1500 BCE. Greco-Roman, Arabian, Indian, and Chinese traditions of learned medicine incorporate various notions of music, used for a therapeutic purpose. There are also stories and q...
A growing interest in music therapy was perceived during the 20th century, which resulted in the assembly of several music therapy associations, none of which lasted very long. In 1903, the National Society of Musical Therapeutics was founded by Eva Augusta Vescelius. Isa Maud Ilsen founded the National Association for Music in Hospitals in 1926. H...
These were pioneers in the field such as Eva Vescelius, musician, author, 1903 founder of the short-lived National Therapeutic Society of New York and the 1913 Music and Health journal, and creator/teacher of a musicotherapy course; Margaret Anderton, pianist, WWI music therapy provider for Canadian soldiers, a strong believer in training for ...
Oct 8, 2018 · Margaret Anderton prepared musicians to provide music therapy services to soldiers suffering from physical and mental disabilities during World War I. Veterans were a pivotal population in the early 1900s to pioneer the music therapy profession.
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Apr 27, 2017 · I had initially thought that the earliest account of music therapy was from the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), who would prescribe different musical...
