Music Therapy Music Therapy Music has been used since the beginning of time to communicate and express feelings.
Music therapy unites the fields of music and therapy to provide a creative treatment and medium.
More specifically, music therapy combines music modalities with humanistic, psychodynamic, behavioral, and biomedical approaches to help clients attain therapeutic goals. Problems or needs are addressed both through the therapeutic relationship between the client and music therapist, as well as approached directly through the music itself. Scholars contend that the idea of using music as an adjunct to medical treatment developed in the late 18th century. Research in music therapy developed in veterans' hospitals during the second World War. Many studies were done on the physiological changes that music had on such variables as mood, blood pressure, breathing, and pulse rate.