Music 2MT3 Midterm UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
music therapy (1960s) - CORRECT ANSWER - the scientific application of the art of
music to accomplish therapeutic aims. It is the use of music and of the therapist's self to
influence changes in behaviour
music therapy (current) - CORRECT ANSWER - the clinical and evidence-based use of
music interventions to accomplish individualized goals.
CAMT - CORRECT ANSWER - Federally incorporated, self-regulated non-profit
professional association that aims to create strong certified music therapists (MTAs) and bring
awareness about professional music therapy services throughout Canada.
music therapy - CORRECT ANSWER - the use of music in all its forms to facilitate
healthcare goals (speech, movement, motion, well being, managing symptoms related to mental
health)
hello song - CORRECT ANSWER - what does a music therapy session always start with?
singing, playing instruments, improvising, composing, listening - CORRECT ANSWER -
what are the different forms of interventions?
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational - CORRECT
ANSWER - what are the 4 stages of childhood development?
sensorimotor - CORRECT ANSWER - what stage of childhood development is this?
learn about immediate environment through their senses and motor activity
,MGRADES
preoperational - CORRECT ANSWER - what stage of childhood development is this?
rapid language and conceptual growth
concrete operational - CORRECT ANSWER - what stage of childhood development is
this?
kids can think systematically and can mentally solve problems related to immediate reality
formal operational - CORRECT ANSWER - what stage of childhood development is this?
develop the ability to think abstractly
physical systems, musical cognition, communication, emotions, social/cultural affiliation -
CORRECT ANSWER - what are the forms of musical engagement?
expressionism - CORRECT ANSWER - suggests that emotional expression is found
directly within the structural features themselves
cue redundancy model - CORRECT ANSWER - Listeners from other cultures can pick up
some emotional cues from structural features of the music while other elements like mode and
tonality are culture-specific.
Preliterate cultures - CORRECT ANSWER - do not have a system of written
communication
magic - CORRECT ANSWER - controlling force and an integral part of a healthy and
peaceful life
,MGRADES
illness - CORRECT ANSWER - considered an atonement for sins committed against a
tribal god
medicine men - CORRECT ANSWER - use music in religious/healing rituals to appease
the gods causing the illness or to drive away evil spirits (use drums, rattles, chants, singing)
healing choruses - CORRECT ANSWER - (group effort) provide spiritual and emotional
support to encourage faster recovery
ancient Egypt (5000bc): - CORRECT ANSWER - what time period was this?
magical, religious, and rational components of medicine existed side by side - healers only focus
on 1 side.
Egyptian Priest - CORRECT ANSWER - who thought this?
physicians included chant therapies in their medical practice because they thought that music
what the medicine for the soul
Babylonian culture (1850bc) - CORRECT ANSWER - what time period was this?
disease was viewed as religious perspective and the sick were deemed outcasts - treatment
included music
ancient greece - CORRECT ANSWER - where?
music was believed to have force over thought, emotion, and physical health
ancient greece - CORRECT ANSWER - where was music considered to be an emotional
catharsis?
, MGRADES
600B.C. - CORRECT ANSWER - rational medicine had replaced magical and religious
rites in Greece when?
blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile - CORRECT ANSWER - what are the 4 cardinal
humours?
Polybus, 380B.C. - CORRECT ANSWER - who and when described the theory of the 4
humours? (name, date)
humors - CORRECT ANSWER - in Polybus' theory: Music would help balance the
________ to have optimal health
middle ages - CORRECT ANSWER - when was this?
Christianity prominent in Western Civilization - prompted a change toward a more empathetic
attitude for the ill.
middle ages - CORRECT ANSWER - when were the mentally ill thought to be possessed
and were abused, imprisoned and confined.
Boethius - CORRECT ANSWER - who claimed that music had the power to degrade or
improve human morals? Cassiodorus saw it as a potent type of catharsis. St. Basil believed it to
be a positive vehicle for sacred emotion.
Hymns - CORRECT ANSWER - what were considered effective against certain
unspecified respiratory diseases?
Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER - when did physicians prescribe music as
preventative medicine?