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The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) was formed in 1998 as a merger between the National Association for Music Therapy (NAMT) and the American Association for Music Therapy (AAMT). AMTA united the music therapy profession for the first time since 1971.
- AMTA History and Archives
Archives of the American Music Therapy Association. The AMTA...
- Support Music Therapy
Artist Spokespersons for Music Therapy; Disaster Response;...
- Membership in AMTA
When you join AMTA, the work we do together supports access,...
- AMTA Board of Directors
Megan has worked in school settings, community based music...
- Who Are Music Therapists
They promote the use of music in therapy, establish and...
- Music Therapy Officials Timeline
AMTA Presidents. 1998-1999 David S. Smith; 2000-2001 Kay...
- Site Map
Site Map - History of Music Therapy
- Bookstore
One of the ways that AMTA is able to support our mission to...
- AMTA History and Archives
Music therapy, an allied health profession, "is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program."
Music therapy, clinical discipline in which music is used to address nonmusical goals. Therapists use music listening, songwriting, improvisation, and lyric analysis as means of fulfilling goals in movement, cognition, speech and language, and mental health. Music therapy is an allied health.
29 maj 2018 · The history of music in medicine, psychiatry, and therapy in Vienna from c. 1820 to 1960 is discontinuous, but despite the gaps in its conceptual development, the idea that music can have a beneficial effect on the human soul and body was always present in common culture.
1 sty 2015 · This chapter is trying to present evidence from uses and functions of music in therapy in four different historical categories: preliterate cultures, as evidenced from research in music anthropology and music archeology; early civilizations, with records of written communication and recorded cultural artifacts pertaining to music and “healing ...
28 lut 2023 · Music Therapy draws from a variety of sources stretching back to the Ancient Greeks, Native American culture and philosophy. It has come into more current thinking and practice following the trauma of both the First and Second World Wars.
1 mar 2006 · A scientific basis for music therapy only emerged after World War II and the term "music therapy" was introduced in about 1950. Contemporary music therapy is used in many fields of medicine, as...
