Music therapy is an evidence-based clinical use of musical interventions used to improve clients’ quality of life. Therapists use music and its many facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients improve their health in cognitive, motor, emotional, communicative, social, sensory, and educational domains by using both active and receptive experiences. These experiences include improvisation, re-creation, composition, and receptive methods and discussion of music.
According to Evan Andrews, reporting on the History Channel, ancient flutes, carve from ivory and bone, were discover by archaeologists, that were determine to be from as far back as 43,000 years ago. He also states that “The earliest fragment of musical notation is found on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet which includes instructions and tuning for a hymn honoring the ruler Lipit-Ishtar. But for the title of oldest extant song, most historians point to “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” (linked below) an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was compose in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrian’s sometime around the 14th century B.C.”
Music Therapy: Frequency Healing Sounds Bringing Harmony
These historic artifacts suggest that perhaps music did play a part in mankind’s advancement’s. The find, of the oldest known melody, Hurrian Hymn No. 6, proves that humans were composing music. As far back as 3,400 years ago and leads me to believe that there was, more than likely, some form of music much farther in the past than we know. Scientific research shows that humans have been evolving over a period of millions of years.
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