Defining Music Therapy . This book defines music, therapy, music therapy, and levels of music therapy. It also provides examples from music therapy literature, one of which is Music In Medicine. This author has found that music reduces preoperative anxiety and decreases the amount of medication needed for anesthesia.
Music helps awaken postoperative patients and reduces pain.
The Mozart Effect . This author explores the use of imagery and music with surgery, anxiolytic music, and music used during recovery from surgery. It was found that listening to music along with using imagery three days before surgery helps with postoperative recovery. Linda Rogers work reveals that patients do hear under anesthesia and that anxiolytic music does reduce anxiety. She recommends that audiotapes selected by each patient be played before, during, and after surgery on cassette players with earphones.