How folk songs can help and heal: Towards analysis of the way music therapy works. TITLE, ORIGINAL: Wie Volkslieder helfen und heilen können: Ein Beitrag zur musiktherapeutischen Wirkungsanalyse.

Author(s): Habla, Bernhard

Journal/Book: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Wolfgang Suppan. 1993; Tutzing. Schneider. 251-264.

Abstract: The power of music to help and heal people results from the interaction of a number of factors including the nature of the music, choice of medium, function, reception, and effectiveness. The focused use of music as a prophylactic and therapeutic agent in various specialized areas of medicine rests on two basic principles: stimulation and motivation, and relaxation and harmonization. Since the effectiveness of music depends on so many different factors, the client-listener and the therapist must be well informed about the melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, formal, and timbral materials that are able to achieve the effects desired. (author)

Keyword(s): use of traditional songs. song-popular and traditional

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