This study was conducted to determine the effect of music on high-anxiety people. Sedative music was found to have a calming affect on high-anxiety people. Music for surgery. This author talks about patients anxiety in the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative period. He reports that familiar music evokes too many memories and associations.
Results indicate that audiotapes and postoperative tapes are helpful.
There is evidence that tone, volume, and pitch elicit responses in listeners. This article analyzes and applies music therapy to all fields of medicine. The article presents results from studies about the use of music in dental procedures with patients. The benefits of listening to music before, during, and after surgery are also explored. Biomedical Foundations of Music as Therapy .