Melody is thought to be the 'essential core' of music. In the context of music therapy, looking at how patients develop their own melodies in improvisation can explain how they find their own voice, determine their position in relation to the world, and play an important role in how they relate to t[...]

Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be 'unreachable' or 'non-responsive'."Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury" demonstrates how music therapy can be used to attend to the holistic,[...]

Admiral Sir John Norris is probably an unknown character for many who are otherwise well familiar with British naval activities in the eighteenth century. This work presents a seaman and a dutiful officer, and the lively conditions and politics of this dramatic period - a tale of the dilemmas of Nor[...]