Music that works (eBook)

Roland Haas, PhD, theatrical advisor, festival director, author and lecturer, former rector of the University Mozarteum, Salzburg, revived research into the effects of music in Austria with the research network "Man and Musicâ" of the Salzburg Universities from 2001, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. He is president of the "I.M.A.R.A.A." International Music and Art Research Association Austria which has initiated the Mozart&Science conferences focused on the current state of interdisciplinary music effect research, both nationally and internationally.Vera Brandes' first career was as a concert promoter, independent music industry entrepreneur and renowned music producer. As a psychologist and music and media effect researcher, she is director of the Research Program for MusicMedicine at the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, member of the board of the I.M.A.R.A.A., international program coordinator of Mozart&Science and member of the founder`s board of the International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM).

Contents 6
Introduction: Music that works 7
Sonification: listen to brain activity 17
Chronobiology – as a foundation for and an approach to a new understanding of the influence of music 30
Music as medicine: incorporating scalable music- based interventions into standard medical practice 88
A perspective on evidence-based practice 109
The audio-vocal system in song and speech development 113
The significance of exposure to music for the formation and stabilisation of complex neuronal relationship matrices in the human brain: implications for the salutogenetic effects of intervention by means of music therapy 122
Music and the self 134
Neural substrates of processing syntax and semantics in music 145
A City Upon a Hill: making scientific progress in brain- based music research in typical development, autism and other disorders 156
The rhythm of the heart – the tempus of music – Mozart, Ligeti and the Rat 168
Music and child neurology: a developmental perspective 180
Prenatal “experience” and the phylogenesis and ontogenesis of music 186
Music and the evolution of human brain function 196
Clinical applications of music therapy in neurologic rehabilitation 212
Human biochronology: on the source and functions of ‘ musicality’ 222
A study of synchronisation behaviour in a group of test persons during Baksy and Dhikr exercises via psycho- physiological monitoring 267
Resonance and silence – the significance in medicine 294
Emotion modulation by means of music and coping behaviour 300
Identifying the effectiveness of a music-based auditory stimulation method, on children with sensory integration and auditory processing concerns: a pilot study 319
Music as a medicine: incorporating music into standard hospital care 327