Populations in cities are projected to increase globally, densifying urban residential environments with both positive and negative effects. Positive social effects are offset by negative health effects however; urban ...

This collective case study aimed to explore the various expected roles for parents of preschool children in group music lessons in the Klang Valley of West Malaysia, the area located around Kuala Lumpur. We collected data ...

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For older people, participating in leisure activities enhances their sense of social, emotional, mental, spiritual and psychological wellbeing. This article reports on a case study that situated itself across two southern ...

This study was situated in a private mental health care facility in South Africa. It explored the participants' experience of being sung to and actively singing in a group music therapy setting. It also explored the impact ...

Music therapy is becoming widely recognised as an effective non-pharmacological therapeutic modality in dementia care, offering psychological, social, and physical benefits. However, little is known about the neurophysiological ...

Substance use disorders (SUD) are among the most significant worldwide public health challenges. Isolation and separation are some of the more common indicators of SUD. Even though various music therapy interventions are ...

This cross-sectional exploratory mixed methods study surveyed individuals across the African continent who identified themselves as music therapists, music therapy students, musicians who framed their work as “therapeutic,” ...

This study portrays the critical review of piano duet (four hands, one piano) and piano duo (two pianos) repertoire within the context of South African art music. The selection of Masks (1999) for piano duet by Stefans ...

The purpose of this study is to explore how the experience of ambiguity in Leonard Bernstein’s song cycle La Bonne Cuisine challenges the interpretation and performance thereof. I argue that the ambiguity in La Bonne Cuisine ...