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Interview Questions

So I set a view questions for my interview for my Research and Development subject about Music and Emotions. These questions are for someone who has knowledge about Music Therapy since I talked about music therapy as one of my updates to my lecturers. So my target interviewee would be a music therapist.

1. Why did you take music therapy as your preferred study?
This question is to open up the topic of music therapy for the interviewee and to understand more about the subject's personal reasons to his/her interest in the subject.

2. What is music therapy all about?
This question is more direct, it asks the interviewee about her definition of Music Therapy and what can it do.

3. How can music therapy help people and their emotions?
The objective of this question is to know and understand a little better about how music therapy works for clients/patients/people that are prescribed with it.

4. In what cases are music therapy usually used?
The intention of this question is to understand if there are any specific cases/problems/disease/etc. that music therapist usually picks to be given this treatment.

5. How can music actually affect a person's emotions?
This question, in particular, is pretty general and light yet to the point; to let the interviewee explain the more scientific side of the music therapy based on his/her studies.

6. What kind of music therapies are there and what is it usually used for?
For this question, I wanted the interviewee to explain more on the types and methods of music therapy usually used during therapy sessions.

7. Based on your experience, what kind/type of music would be suitable for music therapy?
To let the interviewee give his/her personal opinion/experience on what type/genre of music that is more typically used during therapy sessions.

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