The voices website is an interesting music therapy website. The bases of this website are in Norway, which led me to believe that Norway could possibly be the capital for music therapy. Apparently, Nordoff and Robbins was a huge part of the development of Norwegian music therapy practices. In the beginning, the Norwegian music therapy practices were geared toward special education, so they adopted some methods from Nordoff and Robbins, emphasizing on songs, clinical improvisation, musical plays and music activities. Nordoff and Robbins emphasized on special education, but the research article I have read from the voices website put their focus on children without any disabilities. The research article is titled “The Effects of Music Listening …show more content…
Three dependent variables used for the test measured preferences towards music, recognition of the main melody in classical music and music creativity. The preference and creativity were measured by pre- and post-test, but the recognition was only measured by post-test. The preference towards music was measured on a five-point Likert scale with 1 indicating “least preferred” and 5 indicating “most preferred.” Recognition of the main melody in a classical music excerpt was rated on a basis of the correct answer. All participants were given a list of song titles and composers, after listening to an excerpt they are supposed to match the song title and composer to what they heard. If they got both the title and composer correct they were granted one point, but if they only got one correct (title or composer) they would receive half a point (0.5). Twelve unfamiliar excerpts had been chosen, so the highest grade that could be received is twelve. There were many ways to measure music creativity but Measurements of Creativity in Sound and Music (MCSM) was selected for this study and has been translated for Korea. The MCSM used four activities in order to evaluate three sub-categories of creativity, musical fluency, musical imagination, and musical