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Andrew Verba

English 1201

Professor Stalbird

17 March 2019

Casebook

Beck, Bolette Daniels1, d., et al. “Coping with Work-Related Stress through Guided Imagery and

Music (GIM): Randomized Controlled Trial.” Journal of Music Therapy, vol. 52, no. 3,

Fall 2015, pp. 323–352. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1093/jmt/thv011.

This is another study to help show that a certain type of music therapy can help people
when it comes to stress, in this case. What makes this study trustworthy is how it was conducted.
They insured that every part of the study was randomized. This overall means that they
eliminated as many variables as they could while trying to find a reasonable answer from the
study. One of the things tested here were chemical and hormone levels in each patient, mainly
ones correlating to stress. As the study came to a conclusion, they found that 83% of the
participants within the study had returned to work within the time frame that was expected.
Because of this significant result, they concluded that GIM, a form of music therapy, helped with
work-related stress.

Harris, Maureen Ann. “Differences in Mathematics Scores between Students Who Receive

Traditional Montessori Instruction and Students Who Receive Music Enriched

Montessori Instruction.” Journal for Learning through the Arts, vol. 3, no. 1, Jan.

2007. EBSCOhost, https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1095028.

To start off, this citation in particular can be trusted. It has many reputable affiliations
behind it. For example, this was written under “The Center for Learning in the Arts, Sciences
and Sustainability,” along with many more reputable sources. This helps the argument that music
should be further implemented into our lives because of the educational benefits it can offer.
From their research, they are able to support their claim that students within a music enriched
program have higher math scores than those who are not involved. They also have research
showing that it can help with early childhood development.
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Kent, Dawn. “The Effect of Music on the Human Body and Mind.” digitalcommons.liberty.edu,

3 Mar. 2006,

digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&context=honors.

As stated with the citation above, this is also a very credible source. Listed at the end is
an extensive works cited page, that refers to every point brought up in this student’s final. This
paper refers to the benefits of music therapy, and how we should research more about it. Dawn
first goes off by saying how a vast majority of adults agree that music has evoked some type of
physical or emotional effect on them at some point. Because of this, music therapy, used in a
medical environment, can help strain emotions on people that may need it. Throughout the paper,
Dawn explains the diversity in different kinds of music therapy, and how it can be used to help
us all.

Kuepper-Tetzel, Carolina. “Listening to Music While Studying: A Good or a Bad Idea?” The

Learning Scientists, The Learning Scientists, 10 Nov. 2016,

www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/11/10-1.

Not only is music used to help people medically, but it can be used to help people during
their times at school. This citation has the work of many others that you can reference, and
actively used them to support the claim that music may help you while studying. A study was
conducted to see the affects of studying while listening to classical music, while the other group
did not have any music to listen to. They found out that the participants who listened to classical
music while studying had statistically significant scores than those who did not listen to music.
Overall, this article reports the effects music has on own daily lives more than our professional
lives.

Scott, S. C. E., and A. C. Kidd. “Specific Care Programme for the Elders: A Scoping Review of

Music and Anxiety, Depression and Agitation in Older People with Dementia in

Residential Facilities and Specialist Care Units.” European Geriatric Medicine, vol. 7,

Sept. 2016, pp. 488–491. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.eurger.2016.07.007.

This citation takes things into a narrow approach with music. Because of the narrow
approach, this study may actually be worth looking into. This particular study looks at
participants aged 65 and older who have dementia, anxiety, or depression. As their study
concluded, they found, through randomized sampling, that half of the studies found that music
therapy did help reduce some of the medical effects each elderly patient was receiving. Now,
only half of the studies being successful does not deny or prove anything. Of the three that were
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found to succeed, they were statistically significant with their findings. Meaning that the results
were heavily favored in the fact that music therapy indeed did help the elderly who participated.

“SiOWfa15: Science in Our World: Certainty and Controversy.” SiOWfa15 Science in Our

World Certainty and Controversy, sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/10/21/does-the-type-of-

music-you-listen-to-affect-your-mood/.

This citation is a bit different in the way it is laid out. This page takes a simpler approach
to explain their findings. One example of this “simple” approach is how they added a graph to
show the different moods of music certain age groups listened to. In the graph, it shows that
people within their late teens and early twenties tend to listen to more mellow, somber music.
With this information, we are able to then ask why. We are able to put up a hypothesis and then
conduct further research. As with a trend with most of the cited pieces here, evidence is the one
thing you can use to push your point across. It overall shows the legitimacy of your argument
and gets more people on board. The graph shown is a good starting point with this argument.

Turner, Britney, et al. “Music on the Brain.” Top Documentary Films, 25 Mar. 2016,

topdocumentaryfilms.com/music-brain/.

This is the more obscure of all of the citations. This is a documentary on how music affects
our brains. They dive into the idea that with each generation music is always changing, and that
we are always changing along with it. They talk about how music is a form of communication
and how we use it to bond with each other. Nowadays, people stereotype others based on the
music they may listen to, but this documentary says otherwise. Music is a way to get groups of
people together in a beautiful way. Pushing this idea in my final can help solidify the idea that
music brings people closer rather than separating everyone.
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