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Music as medicine: incorporating scalable music-based interventions into standard medical practice

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Healing by means of music is a very ancient medical art with many approaches to both learning and practice. Music therapy, as it is practiced today, is the systematic application of music in the treatment of the physiological and psychosocial aspects of an illness or disability. It focuses on the acquisition of non-musical skills and behaviour patterns, as determined by a trained music therapist, through systematic assessment and treatment planning.

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  1. MusicMedicine Research Program, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

    Vera Brandes (Director)

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  1. International Music and Art Research Association Austria (I.M.A.R.A.A.), Vienna, Austria

    Roland Haas (President) (President)

  2. Music Medicine Research Program, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

    Vera Brandes (Director) (Director)

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Brandes, V. (2009). Music as medicine: incorporating scalable music-based interventions into standard medical practice. In: Haas, R., Brandes, V. (eds) Music that works. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-75121-3_4

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