Camilla Sullenger

Professor Cassel

English 1201

10 July 2019

Annotated Bibliography

“American Music Therapy Association.” American Music Therapy Association | American Music Therapy

Association (AMTA), www.musictherapy.org/.

The American Music Therapy Association is the central location for information and help with
music therapy. Their main goal is to inform individuals on music therapy and either help someone find a
music therapist or help someone become a music therapist. The association's website is widespread
with information. They have research, contact information, information on the education to become a
music therapist, and their policy and goals as an association.

The intended audience is a wide demographic. To me, it seems like it is more almost anyone and
to inform them about music therapy. The information posted on this website is relevant and updated to
be accesible for this generation.

This site is very credible because it is made and published by an accredited association. This
website is the source of many papers and studies done about music therapy. The information
researchers use to write about music therapy and how it helps individuals comes from this website and
the association.

In my final paper, I will use this source to help define and introduce music therapy. This website
does a nice job of describing music therapy and it's multiple uses. This site also gives quotes from
doctors and elite individuals about the power of music and music therapy that I could use in my paper to
help support the importance of music therapy and how it can help.

Fauble, Lisabeth. Medicinal Music: An Anatomy of Music in the Healing Arts. ProQuest Dissertations

& Theses, 2016.

This source is a book, "Medicinal Music: An Anatomy of Music in the Healing Arts", written by
Lisabeth Fauble. It was listed as a used source in an article and I found the book. The main point of this
book is that music and sound help the recovery process whether it be trauma or surgery. Fauble
mentions how music helps emotions and communication. She also writes about that music goes beyond
just helping with the recovery process but improving the well-being of the individual.
 The author's purpose for this book was to inform individuals about the power of music and
sound on the body and how it can help with recovery. I believe the intended audience to be those
recovering from either surgery or trauma or the loved one around that individual and help them through
the process. Letting them know that music can help them maybe with pain, emotions, or just to relax for
a minute. This book was published in May of 2016 so the information is recent and relevant right now.

Lisabeth Fauble is a Master of Musicology at Prescott college and has had over eight years of
experience researching. She researches about the connection between the neuroscience of our brain
and music. I believe Fauble to be even more credible because she made a bibliography for her book with
the many references she used for her book, showing that she thorougly researched.

In my research paper this source will help me to support that music helps with recovery and
emotions. Your emotions effect your recovery a lot and if music helps you to stay calm or become more
relaxed than that helps the recovery process. This source helps a lot because it is factual and un-biased.

“Get Help.” GoodTherapy, www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/music-therapy.

This website, GoodTheapy, is for all types of therapies and gives you insight into therapy. The
site gives a brief history of music therapy, who and what benefits come from music therapy, and a short
explanation for what happens in a music therapy session. They explain shortly how music effects the
brain. The site mentions how useful music therapy is for psychological concerns such as depression or
autism but also writes about how music can helps those with cancer.

The whole website itself is to inform individuals on therapies to help them in their daily life.
Different therapies help with different things but sometimes multiple therapies can help with the same
thing so you would want the best one for you. This website was last updated in 2015 so the information
is recent.

This website is credible because it is a .org website as well as having all of their references
listed. The got their information from other credible sites. I believe because it is an informational site
and not pieces like articles, they do not list an author because it is more than likely someone that works
for GoodTherapy.

This website will help me for my research paper to define music therapy and start my paper.
This website also will help me to put some background in the final paper with the history of music
therapy and how it helped people before.

“How Music Therapy Affects the Brain in Autism.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers,

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neuroscience-in-translation/201903/how-music-therapy-

affects-the-brain-in-autism.
 This article written by Katherine Stavropoulos, is about the connection between music
therapy and autism. The website starts with a little background on the autism spectrum disorder and
then explains specifically how music helps those with autism. In this article, Stavropoulos writes about a
study conducted with two classes of autism spectrum students. One class had music intervention and
the other did not. The purpose of the study was to see how music effected their communication and
behavior. From the results they saw that music increased their communication and bettered their
behavior.

The purpose of this article was to inform the parents or loved one of someone with autism.
To show how music can help them communicate and be more social and help their behavior. This article
was written because the author read about the study conducted that was mentioned in the piece.
Stavropoulos' article simplified and explained the study to better understand the benefits of music in an
ASD classroom.

The author, Katherine Stavropoulos , is very credible seeing as she is a clinical psychologist
and has had experience with individuals with autism. This source is credible because it is constantly
updated with new information to keep up to date with medical and psychological findings. The author
also cited her sources which gives credibility to the information she wrote about.

For my research paper, I will use this to write about hoe music effects communication and
behavior. This will also help my paper to write about how music specifically helps with autism.

“Music Therapy.” Health & Wellness, 23 Dec. 2015,

www.unh.edu/health/well/complementaryalternative-health-practices/music-therapy.

This website is from the University of New Hampshire and their health and wellness
department. They describe some of the history of music therapy, the purpose and how it works, and
how to do it on your own. This site also addresses how music therapy can even help a healthy person,
such as relieve stress and help them relax.

This website was probably created by the students of the health and wellness department of
the University of New Hampshire. On this website, there are many other therapies and other health
practices to inform people about to help them in their daily life. I believe this is for a wide demographic
of people who want to know how to relieve stress and relax more.

This site is credible because it is an education site and they referenced their sources. They
also used the American Music Therapy Association as a reference which is the main source of music
therapy information.

I will use this website and it's information in my final paper to show how anyone can use
music to help their needs. This shows that you do need to have a psychological or physical concern to
use music therapy to help you.
“Music Therapy for Health and Wellness.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers,

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/natural-standard/201306/music-therapy-health-and-

wellness.

This article by Catherine Ulbricht is about what music therapy does for your health. Ulbricht
talks about the specifics of music therapy and dementia, depression, and autism. She also mentions
things like the quality of sleep with music and infant development when surrounded by music.

The purpose of this article is to inform people on the uses and benefits of music therapy in
some psychological concerns as well as daily living. I believe the demographic for this article is anyone
who wants to improve their well-being or someone else that may have autism, depression, or dementia.

This article is credible because it is written by Catherine Ulbricht who is a pharmacist at

Massachusetts general hospital and the co-founder of the Natural Standard Research Collaboration. The
content on this website is also always being updated so that it is recent and useful to those reading it
today.

For my research paper, I will use this to help me write about specific examples on how music
therapy helps things like autism, depression, and dementia. I will also use this source to show how music
therapy can help other things like the quality of sleep you get at night or how music effects a baby's
growth.

Otterman, Sharon. “Music Therapy Offers an End-of-Life Grace Note.” The New York Times, The New
York

Times, 15 Jan. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/nyregion/music-therapy-nursing-home-

hospice.html.

This article, written by Sharon Otterman, is about Beverly Herzog and how music therapy has
transformed her life. Beverly is 90 years old and she is writing songs with her music therapist. Beverly
suffers from memory loss but the music gives her a way to show her emotions and connect with them.
Otterman also writes about Russel Hilliard and what he did in Finksburg, Maryland by founding the
Center for Music Therapy in End of Life Care.

I believe this article to written for a compassionate audience. This is a heartfelt story of
what music did for Beverly Herzog. Sharon Otterman wrote about this to get people's attention and she
used pathos to get them interested in music therapy.
 This is a credible source because it is a national publication and just written in 2018 making it
recent and relevant to this generation. The author, Sharon Otterman, has had many years or experience
researching and writing about what she finds and reads.

I will use this source in my final paper as a specific example on how music therapy has
helped someone, maybe not recover but have a better quality of life than before while dealing with this
struggle. This will help to give some pathos to my paper and get people interested in music therapy.