Project Starter Databases:
List compiled by Dr. Miriam Zach with additions by Ferol Carytsas.
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Books
Akombo, D. (2006) Music & Healing Across Cultures.
Aldridge, D. (1996) Music Therapy Research and Practice in Medicine.
Aldridge, D. (1999) Music Therapy in Palliative Care: New Voices.
Alvin, J. (1991) Music Therapy for the Autistic Child.
Bonny, H. & Savary, L. (1973) Music and Your Mind: Listening with a New Consciousness.
Bruser, J., ed. (1999) The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart. (e-book version.)
Bunt, C. & Hoskyns, S. (2002) Handbook of Music Therapy.
Cabral, J., Lee, T., & Wright, M. (2020) The Engaged Caregiver: How to Build a Performance-driven Workforce to Reduce Burnout and Transform Care. (e-book on order)
Campbell, D. (1983) Introduction to the Musical Brain. (1992 edition)
Campbell, D. (1997) The Mozart Effect. (2000 edition)
Campbell, D. (2000). Music: Physician for Times to Come.
Chopra, D. (1990) Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine.
Citron, M. (1993) Gender and the Musical Canon.
Clift. S., Camic, P., eds. (2016) Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing: International perspectives on practice, policy and research.
Davis, W., Gfeller, K., Thaut, M. (2008) An Introduction to Music Therapy and Practice. 3rd edition.
Eagle, C. & Lantom, W. (1984) Music Therapy for Handicapped Children.
Fancourt, D. (2017) Arts in Health: Designing and researching interventions.
Gardner, H. (1983) Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Gardner, K. (1990) Sounding the Inner Landscape: Music as Medicine.
Gouk, P. (2000) Musical Healing in Cultural Contexts.
Graham-Pole, J. (2000) Illness and the Art of Creative Self-Expression.
Green, B. & Gallwey, T. (1986) The Inner Game of Music.
Hargreaves, D. & North, A. (2001) Musical Development and Learning: The International Perspective.
Hargreaves, D. & North, A. (1997) The Social Psychology of Music.
Helmholtz, Hermann. (1954) On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music.
Horden, Peregrine, ed. (2000) Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity.
Jahn, A. (2013) The Singer's Guide to Complete Health.
Jourdain, R. (1997) Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination.
Kempter, S. (2003) How Muscles Learn: Teaching the Violin with the Body in Mind.
Koen, B., ed. (2008) The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology.
Lambert, P. eds. (2016) Managing Arts Programs in Healthcare.
Lanthom-Radocy, W. (2002) Pediatric Music Therapy.
Levitin, D. (2006) This is Your Brain on Music.
Licht, S. (1946) Music in Medicine.
Lieberman, J. (1991) You are Your Instrument: the Definitive Musician's Guide to Practice and Performance.
MacDonald, R., Kreutz, G., Mitchell, L., ed. (2012) Music, Health & Wellbeing.
McClellan, R. (1988) The Healing Forces of Music.
Miles, E. (1997) Tune your Brain: Using Music to Manage your Mind, Body, and Mood.
Merritt, S. Mind, Music and Imagery. NY: Penguin, 1990
Muecke, M. and Zach, M. (2007) Resonance: Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture.
Neumayr, A. (1994-1995) Music and Medicine, vols. I, II & III.
Okigbo, A. (2016) Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health: Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir.
Patel, A. (2008) Music, Language and the Brain.
Pratt, R. (1993) Music Therapy and Music Education for the Handicapped.
Radocy, R. & Boyle, J.D. (2003) Psychological Foundations of Musical Behavior, 5th ed.
Randel, Don Michael, ed. (1986) The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. (2003 edition also available)
Ristad, E. (1982) A Soprano on Her Head.
Reubart, D. (1995) Anxiety and Musical Performance: On Playing the Piano from Memory.
Sacks, O. (2006) Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
Sacks, O. (1989) Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf.
Sacks, O. (1998) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for Hat.
Sadler, B. & Ridenour, A. (2009) Transforming the Healthcare Experience Through the Arts.
Salmon, P. & Meyer, R. (1992) Notes from the Green Room: Coping with Stress and Anxiety in Musical Performance.
Sazer, V. (2003) New Directions in Cello Playing: How to Make Cello Playing Easier and Play Without Pain.
Schafer, R. (1977) The Tuning of the World. (1994 edition also available)
Schullian, D. & Schoen, M. (1996) Music and Medicine.
Serlin, I. (2007) Whole Person Healthcare, Vol. 3: The Arts and Health.
Smith, B. & Sataloff, R. (2006) Choral Pedagogy. 2nd ed. (2013 edition also available)
Spintge, R. & Droh, R., eds. (1992) MusicMedicine: IV International MusicMedicine Symposium.
Suzuki, S. (1974) The Suzuki Concept: An Introduction to a Successful Method for Early Music Education.
Taylor, J. (2009) My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.
Thompson, W.F. (2014) Music, Thought, and Feeling: Understanding the Psychology of Music.
Wheeler, B., ed. (1995) Music Therapy: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives.
Whitehead-Pleaux, A. & Tan, X., eds. (2017) Cultural Intersections in Music Therapy: Music, Health and the Person.
Wigram, T., Pederson, I., Bonde, L. (2002) A Comprehensive Guide to Music Therapy. (music CD also available)
Wong, L. (2013) Scales to Scalpels: Doctors who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine.
Documentaries
Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory, (streaming) 2014 (also available through Amazon Prime)
Composed, (streaming) 2017
Itzhak, (DVD) 2018 (also available through Amazon Prime)
The Music Instinct: Science and Song, (DVD) 2009
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, (streaming) 2015
There is a Place, (streaming) 2016
Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie, (DVD) 2004
Feature Films
Jenseits der Stille: Beyond Silence, (DVD) 1999
The King’s Speech, (DVD) 2010
Mr. Holland's Opus, (DVD) 1995 (also available through Amazon Prime)
Music of the Heart, (DVD) 1999
Still Alice, (streaming) 2015
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