World Music Day 2021 is celebrated around the globe as a virtual event and social media posts are being exchanged owing to COVID-19 pandemic crisis. This morning facebook friend Pawan Kumar wished "Happy World Music Day" through his picture post with a quote in Hindi (See adjoining picture)
Earlier, in many countries on World Music Day, music lovers and music makers used to organized public concerts in streets, parks, stadiums, malls and public places.
World Music Day is observed on 21 June across the world since 1982 with France taking the lead in its observance under the leadership of Jack Lange and Maurice Fleuret who started the Fête de la Musique in Paris.
I had been advocating for teaching select portions of all subject with 'musical intelligence' as suggested by Howard Gardener's Theory of Multiple Intelligence to bring about equity in learning.
"Current valid musical therapeutic approaches are based on the neurologic music theory and music-guided imagery interventions to mitigate behavioral-emotional disorders. Some recent journals report studies related to behavioral music therapy, cognitive-behavioral music therapy, and psychodynamic music therapy interventions in the research literature," I wrote in a write-up earlier.
Here, I reproduce it as a part of my way of observing the event along with a sketch note on musical intelligence to read and make sense.
"It has been observed that the current valid musical therapeutic approaches are based on the neurologic music theory and music-guided imagery interventions to mitigate behavioral-emotional disorders. Some recent journals report studies related to behavioral music therapy, cognitive-behavioral music therapy, and psychodynamic music therapy interventions in the research literature.
However, with each client, the intervention is designed with the contextualized goals as per the diagnosis. The intervention also requires mid-course corrections and fine-tuning to maximize benefits.
Furthermore, the music therapist has an ongoing responsibility of prognosis to evaluate the progress of the client in achieving the goals of the designed therapy and adjust the intervention. It is possible that the designed therapy during the test trial may be hindering the client. So, therapist has to be honest and open-minded to refine the intervention.
The neurologic music therapy is highly scientific and is carried out in consultation with neuro-scientists to measure the effect of designed intervention by the therapist on functional changes in non-musical parts of the brain as well as the changes in the overt behavior functions of the client.
The basic assumption of neurologic music therapy, as stated by Michael Thaut, is that 'The brain that engages in music is changed by engaging in music.'
Neurologic music theory driven interventions first study how the brain is wired without music through brain scanning. Thereafter, by trialing the musical intervention, it is found how the brain is getting rewired with music therapy. The differences are measured and discussed to assess the non-musical gains of the music therapy intervention. Even, the client's responses like tapping of fingers, head swaying, foot tapping or patting of body parts are recorded for prognosis.
Music therapy should never be equated to playing music for mere relaxation, listening to music, imitating music or one being taught by a musician. The myths and misconceptions about conventional and popular music as a healing intervention are needed to be busted. Lack of availability of trained, certified and licensed music therapists is another challenge."
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