Links to

• Music Therapy Organisations
• Music Therapy Clinical and Educational Programs
• Music Therapy Events
• Music Therapy Literature -- Book Distributors, Journals, Databases and more
• Music Therapy in the News
• Music
• Related Organisations
• Related Events
• Copyright
• Other -- Equipment, Funding and more

This makes no claim to be an exhaustive collection of links to Music Therapy related information on the web, but it's a good start!

Please help us keep this list viable by letting us know if any of the links no longer works. Contact the web editor .

Music Therapy Organisations

• Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy
• American Music Therapy Association
• Association of Professional Music Therapists (APMT) (Britain)
• British Society for Music Therapy
• Canadian Association for Music Therapy
• Finnish Music Therapy Association
• Florida Association for Music Therapy
• German Association for Music Therapy
• Korean Music Therapy Association
• Music Therapy in Argentina
• Music Therapy in the Netherlands
• Music Therapy World (Witten Herdecke)
• New Zealand Society for Music Therapy
• Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia Inc
• The World Federation of Music Therapy (follow link to WFMT) .
• The Certification Board for Music Therapists (USA)
• Therapy Seek - Music Therapy (therapy resource information website)

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Music Therapy Clinical and Educational Programs

Music Therapy Education

• Australian Courses
• Aalborg University, Denmark
• Irish World Music Centre
• Lesley University, Mass, USA
• Music Therapy Program at Western Michigan University
• New York University
• Temple University, Philadeplphia
• The Laurier Centre for Music Therapy Research
  

Music Therapy Clinical Programs

• Austin Health
• Calvary Health Care Bethlehem, Melbourne
• Center for Biomedical Research in Music (Michael Thaut)
• Claus Bang: A World of Sound and Music (MT for deaf and hearing impaired clients)
• Institute for music and neurologic function (Connie Tomaino)
• Life: sounding the Soul (CD project at the Royal Melbourne Hospital)
• MARCS/RCH 'Music Therapy for Vulnerable Infants' study
• Music Therapy at the University Hospitals of Cleveland
• Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia incorporating the Golden Stave Music Therapy Centre
• The Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University
• North Yorkshire Music Therapy Centre (UK)
• Rebecca Magill BMT MTA (Canada)
• Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
• Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability (London)
• Soundexpression (Sydney, Aust)
• University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Kuring-gai campus, Lindfield.
• WMU Music Therapy Clinic (Western Michigan University)

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Music Therapy Events

• Ta Ke Ti Na Workshop. (Information). Canberra, Australia. 21, 22, 23 November, 2008.
• Cheap Guitar Tricks Class, Friday 14th Dec 9.30am - 11.30am. Deepdene (Kew/Balwyn) $130 for six weeks.
  Raelene 0439 722 470.
  - This is a great  course for people who'd like to acquire enough guitar skill to accompany themselves singing, write songs, or understand a bit better how music fits together. We will cover topics like simplified chords, moveable chords, simplified moveable chords, simple strumming and picking skills, capos, adapting songs to suit your skills, finding your way around the guitar, and many other ways of cheating so that you can look and sound like you know more than you do.
  
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Music Therapy Literature

• Literature by Australian music therapists
• Research by Australian music therapists
• MT Publishers and Book Distributors
• MT Journals
• MT Bulletin Boards
• Databases/Search Engines
• Related Databases/Electronic Journals
• Other Online Sources by Clinical Category

Publishers and Book Distributors

• Barcelona Publishers
• West Music, Books and Instruments
• Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, Arts Therapies
• Magna Music Baton, St Louis, USA, Books and instruments
• Footprint Books, Australian Distributors for Jessica Kingsley
• Booktopia, Sydney
• Internet Health Library Article
• also see our guide to online bookstores (Word format)

Journals

• The Arts in Psychotherapy
• Australian Journal of Music Therapy
• British Journal of Music Therapy
• The Journal of Music Therapy
• Music Perception (now on-line)
• Music Therapy Perspectives
• Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
• Psychology of Music
• Voices: A world forum for music therapy

Bulletin Boards

• Music therapy today(Witten Herdecke)
• Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
• MT-PRO An American Listserv for the Music Therapy Profession
• European Music Journal (English)

Databases/Search Engines

• American Musicological Society Links Page
• CAIRSS - Institute for Music Research CAIRSS for Music (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System). CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature.
• Google Scholar
• Healthopedia
• Institute for Music Research
• musicpsychology.net
• Musictherapyworld (Witten Herdecke) (full-text articles in database)
• National Library of Medicine (USA) MEDLINE Online Database with search facilities
• Temple University Music Therapy On-line information and resources
• William & Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University
  

Related Databases and Electronic Journals

• AeJAMH The Australian e-journal for the Advancement of Mental Health is a peer-reviewed online journal produced by Ausienet. Inquiries and original contributions can be sent via e-mail to : anne.ohanlon@flinders.edu.au
• The Stronger Families Learning Exchange provides information about funded projects, access to bulletins, notice about forthcoming conferences, a 'good practice' database and a collection of new and updated online resources.
• Medical Journal of Australia
• Australian E-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health

Online Sources by Clinical Category - this section is under construction

To add new categories or links, email the web editor.

Neurologic Music Therapy

• The whole brain atlas
• The Musical Brain
• Robert Zatorre's home page
• Laboratory for Neuropsychology of Music and Auditory Cognition (Montreal)
• Washington University School of Medicine Neuroscience Tutorial
• The Center for Biomedical Research in Music (Colorado State University)
• Music Therapy in Neurology Network
• Institute of Complex Neuro-disability (London)
• The Music Therapy Neurology Network

Music Medicine

• Gray's anatomy on-line
• Epidemiology for the Uninitiated

Music Therapy for Disabilities

• Claus Bang: A World of Sound and Music (MT for deaf and hearing impaired clients)

Palliative Care

• Palliative Care Australia National Community Education Initiative (Community education resources available to order or download)
• Living-caring-working website (Contains information for people living with a terminal illness or their carers. It also provides a general source of information to assist in a clearer understanding about palliative care and about how to make a difference.
  

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Music Therapy in the News

• ABC JTV, 'Hack: Music Therapy' 2 March 2007. Interview with Ann Lehmann and some well known musicians.
• Herald Sun 'Tuned to healing' 12 May 2006, pg.32: Article on music therapy in rehabilitation.
• ABC regional radio Victoria 4 May 2006: Talkback and discussion on music therapy media release
• SBS Television 'Storyline' Thursday 10 November 2005: The work of Australian RMT, Emma O'Brien; Opera Therapy.
• ABC Radio 'The World Today' May 30 2005: Interview with Katrina McFerran. Listen to the radio broadcast.
• ABC Radio 'Keys to Music' May 28 2005: Interview with Sue Coull. Listen to radio broadcast.
• BBC World Service – The Power of Music Part 2 – Application of Music in Medicine . Listen to the radio broadcast.
• Today Show: Interview with Felicity Baker, April 2004 See bottom of page. For more information click here
• George Negus Tonight: Interview with Emma O'Brien, April 2004
• Lullabies Soothe Stressed Mums - The Australian, February 2004
• Let's Take Music Seriously - 'The Age' May 2003
• George Negus Tonight: Interview with Helen Shoemark, October 2003
• Pittsburgh Business Times - "Music Therapy helps people deal with burn out."
• ABC radio 'World Today' May 23rd 2001 interview with Robin Howat
• Heather Hill research
• HealthScout (Yahoo) Enter search term 'music therapy' to locate several news articles
• Neurosciences for Kids - the 'Mozart effect'. Clearly states the outcome of the original research and the various attempts to replicate it.
• Radio National - Health Report - Hospital Troubadour 18 June 2001
• Music therapy with burns patients at the Shriners Hospital, Texas USA
• Music therapy for Parkinson's and dementia (funded studies) (USA)
• ABC Radio 'The World Today' 3rd October, 2001 - interview with Stephanie Thompson RMT and Bridgit Hogan RMT at the Australian Palliative Care Conference in Hobart.

The US website WebMD Health feautres music/music therapy in a number of articles:

• The sound of healing
• Chopin tunes: Music to babies' ears
• Health in your mature years- chat with Alicia Ann Clair
• More hospital healing with the help of Music Therapy
• Sound therapy
  

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Music

• Aboriginal Art & Culture Centre
• Arthur Hull's Drum Circle site
• Australian Music Website
• Billy Hyde
• Building musical Instruments
• Celtic Southern Cross
• Guitar tabs universe
• Duble Lyrics
• Maton Guitars
• More guitar tabs!
• Music Shareware Software
• Musical Instrument cases
• On-lineEquipment insurance quotes
• Paul Kelly Lyrics and Guitar Tabs
• Q-chord
• Quarantine issues for OS instruments
• Schlagwerk Percussion (Germany)
• Soundhouse

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Related Organisations

Music

• The Australian Music Examination Board
• Australian National Council of Orff Schulwerk (ANCOS)
• Australian Network for Arts and Health
• Australian Society for Music Education (ASME)
• Association of Music Educators (Victoria)
• International Alliance of Women in Music
• Macarthur Auditory Research Centre, University of Western Sydney
• Music and Imagery Association of Australia
• NAMM- Recreational Music Making
• The Music Council of Australia
• Musical acoustics at UNSW
• Musicological Society of Australia
• National Networked Facility for Research in Australian Music
• Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research

Other Creative Arts

• Arts in Therapy
• Australian and New Zealand Art Therapy Association Inc
• Australian & New Zealand Psychodrama Association
• The Australian Business Arts Foundation
• The Canadian Network for Health in the Arts (CNHA)
• Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts, Australia (DADAA)
• The National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations

Other allied health

• Audiological Society of Australia
• Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health
• Australian Physiotherapy Association
• Australian Association of SocialWorkers
• OT Australia (Australian Association of Occupational Therapists)
• Auditory list
• Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH)
• Society for Research in Child Development
• Therapy Seek (therapy resource information website)

Population or other Focus Organisations

• Ability (British)
• The Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
• Australian Cerebral Palsy Association
• Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association
• Australian Network for promotion, prevention and early intervention for mental health
• Australian Policy Online
• Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine
• EPPIC - Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre
• HealthWeb
• Infoxchange - Technology for social justice
• International Association of Sound Therapy
• SANE Australia
• Multicultural Mental Health Australia
• Music Play for Life Campaign
• National Rural Health Alliance
• Palliative Care Victoria
• Psychotherapy in Australia
• Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia

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Related Events

Go to MUSIC THERAPY events

July - September 2008

• Expo-Second International Congress Complementary and Alternative Medicine to improve the quality of life. 14-16 July, 2008. Panama City,
• International Symposium: Re-imagining Special Education through Arts Education and Arts Therapy. 26-29 July, 2008. Melbourne, Australia.
• 4th National CAPS Conference. Ageing in a Multifaith and Multicultural Society. 17 - 20 August, 2008. North ACT/NSW Border, Australia.
• The second Annual National Dementia Research Forum. 18-19 September, 2008. Sydney, Australia.

October - December 2008

• Mozart and Science: Interdisciplinary Confernece About the Effect and the Experience of Music. 16-19 November, 2008. Vienna, Austria. Call for posters out now
• 2008 Annual Conference of the American Music Therapy Association: Expanding the Gateway to Music Therapy. 18-23 November, 2008. St. Louis, USA.

Go to MUSIC THERAPY events

Jan- Mar 2009

• Listening with the Whole Body. March 2009. Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Austarlia.

April- June 2009

• 35th Conference of the Canadian Association for Music Therapy: A Song for Everyone: The Voice of Music Therapy. 7-9 May, 2009. Ottawa, Canada. Call for papers out now- closing date for submission: 1 November 2008.
•  24th International Training Institute in Neurologic Music Therapy.  7-9 May, 2009. The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, West Hill, London.
• 2009 Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology/Oncology Group. 4-6 June, 2009. Adelaide, Australia. Call for abstracts out now.
  

July- September 2009

• 10th APCC & 8th APHC Conference: Together! Cultural Connections for Quality Care at the End of Life. 24-27 September, 2009. Perth, Australia. Abstract closing date 6 February 2009.

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Copyright

On behalf of Australian RMTs, AMTA Inc. has arrangements with the following copyright agencies/societies. RMTs should contact the National Office or the National Executive for information about these arrangements.

Live public performance (concerts) and broadcasting of music:
Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)

Copyright for composers:
Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society Limited (AMCOS)

Public performance of recorded music (includes music and lyrics):
Phonographic Performance Record Company of Australia (PPCA)

As the producer of new music, music therapist can pursue the same rights as other artists:
Music and Copyright
Australian Copyright Council

AMTA Inc. is a subscribing member of the Arts Law Centre of Australia

Other

• Equipment Distributors

  • American Drum - mallets for therapy
  • Helix - Hand-crafted Australian musical instruments
  • Human Brain Models
  • West Music, Books and Instruments
    

 

• Funding

• Our Community
• Philanthropy Australia
• Vic Health - arts funding

• Instructions to authors in the health sciences

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