Combining Music and Imagery in the Context of Medical Music Therapy

Abstract

We live in a world filled with sounds and images. A storm comes close, we hear the thunder, we see the lightning, we feel the change in the atmosphere. Or we meet with friends – we hear their voices, we watch their facial expressions, and we interact and relate to them based on our own personal experiences of what we see and hear. We go to a concert, we hear the words and the music, and we use our mind to conjure up images that relate to not only the music but also who we are and how we feel as we live in our world...