Reviews for Music Therapy and Its Relationship to Current Treatment Theories

The average rating for Music Therapy and Its Relationship to Current Treatment Theories based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-26 00:00:00 Michael Thurmond Interesting argument about "stylistic hangovers". Great range, a plethora of composers discussed. Some details superseded now, perhaps, in this book originally written in German, in 1949. E.g. On page 93, Blume had attributed and dated the "colossal festal mass for the dedication of the Salzburg cathedral" to Orazio Benevoli (1628), but today, the Missa Salsburgensis (a 53 voci) is now attributed to Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, and dated 1682, likely composed for the 1100th anniversary of the Salzburg Bishopric. (The composer, Biber, does get a mention in Blume's survey, towards the end of the book, on p.151.) The discussion continues in the companion volume by Blume, entitled: Classic and Romantic Music: A Comprehensive Survey (The W.W. Norton copy I have has an error on the back cover. It mentions a companion volume by the same author but fails to reference the above title correctly.) The author, Friedrich Blume (5 January 1893, in Schlüchtern, Hesse-Nassau - 22 November 1975, in Schlüchtern), was professor of Musicology in Kiel University from 1938-1958. He taught in Berlin and Leipzig for some years before being called to the chair in Kiel. His early studies were on Lutheran church music, including several books on J.S. Bach, but he broadened his interests considerably later. From 1949 he was involved in the planning and writing, in German, of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG; Music in History and the Present), the largest and most comprehensive German music encyclopedia.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-07 00:00:00 Donna Ingram An interesting interpretation and collection of opinions on the Baroque - with a particular focus on Italy as 'the' land of music up until 1740