Recently added articles from Journal of Music Therapy:
The Effects of Music Preference and Exercise Intensity on Psychological Variables
Jul 01, 2008; Dyrlund, Allison K; Wininger, Steven R ... The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of music preference and exercise intensity on exercise enjoyment, perceived exertion (RPE), and attentional focus. Participants were assigned to 1 of 3 music preference conditions (most preferred, least preferred, or no music) and walked/ran ...
Elementary-Aged Children's Aesthetic Experiences with Music
Jul 01, 2008; Paul, Phyllis M ... This study examined the perceived aesthetic experiences of elementary school children. Sixty 4th graders, from 3 intact public school classes that included students identified as gifted and with special needs, listened to Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, Variation 18, by Rachmaninoff and ...
The Effect of Personality Type and Musical Task on Self-Perceived Arousal
Jul 01, 2008; Lim, Hayoung A ... This study was designed to measure the level of arousal influenced by 4 different musical experiences classified by task difficulty and to examine the relationship between music-induced arousal level and personality type. Participants included 32 university students who were neither musicians ...
The Effect of Improvisation-Assisted Desensitization, and Music-Assisted Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Imagery on Reducing Pianists' Music Performance Anxiety
Jul 01, 2008; Kim, Youngshin ... The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of two music therapy approaches, improvisation-assisted desensitization, and music-assisted progressive muscle relaxation and imagery on ameliorating the symptoms of music performance anxiety (MPA) among student pianists. Thirty female ...
Professional Music Therapy Supervision: A Survey
Jul 01, 2008; Jackson, Nancy A ... Clinical supervision is regularly given to music therapy students and interns, but the need for professional music therapy supervision has largely not been discussed or explored. In order to better understand prevailing thoughts about professional music therapy supervision, music therapists were ...
Feminist perspectives in music therapy
Jul 01, 2008; Chestnut, Mechelle ... Hadley, S. (Ed.) (2006). Feminist perspectives in music therapy. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers, 500 pages. Feminist perspectives in music therapy is the first music therapy text dedicated to the exploration of feminist thought in music therapy. This is the next groundbreaking text in ...