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Music therapy is music as an art, but it is also a science, and it’s applied in a way that improves quality of life and meets the needs of children and adults with disabilities and illnesses. The therapist structures music-based experiences to work toward specifically prescribed goals.

Although I have expressed myself through the arts for years (both as a performer and an enthusiastic audience member), music therapy introduced me to an entirely new use of creative aptitude that I had not witnessed before.  Admittedly, I still didn’t really understand the nuances of music therapy even as I began my formal undergraduate education as a music therapy major.