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One question that stumbled to me while I was researching for my paper about music and emotion is: How do the deaf listen to music? And upon searching on Google, I found out that the deaf 'listens' to music by feeling the vibration a sound produces. First, let's start off with the misconception that being deaf means you cannot hear anything at all – there are varying levels of deafness. Secondly, deaf people can feel the vibrations produced by the music being played and consume those vibrations through their body. The humming sound produced by picking a bass string or the boom of the drums can be felt very easily by them. The lyrics evoke different types of feelings, and the combination of vibrations and lyrics is how deaf people enjoy music. Someone who wears hearing aids or Cochrane implants may have some enhanced levels of hearings, but for those who don’t, they turn up the volume so they can feel the vibrations from beats and bass more strongly as they read the lyr...

In today's post about music therapy, I actually got the chance to interview (via email) a friend of mine; Novelyne Faustine B.A., who is a music therapist and piano instructor from Indonesia. I reached out to her to ask about what she took for her degree and if she has anyone she knew that could help me with my research topic because I knew she was learning music. But when I found out she was actually taking Music Therapy, I was beyond lucky and I had to do this interview with her instead. She was really kind to agree to help me and patient enough to answer my list of questions. So I prepared several questions to ask her more about her knowledge on the topic.  I asked her why she picked Music Therapy as her preferred studies.  She said, "As cliché as this may sound, growing up, I have always enjoyed playing and listening to music. It was a very natural process for me to choose music as my professional field but music therapy ... was something I discovered just a year be...

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 ...

As part of our Research and Development subject, we are asked to pick a topic of our choosing to do a report on. I chose the topic of  Music & Emotions , and the idea is to learn and understand more about how music relates to people's emotions, how it affects people when listening to them, and what happens after they listen to them. But reading other people's findings and papers is not enough. I have to do some primary research. One of the things I did is a survey. Specifically, a survey to understand people's habit of listening to music and understanding how they pick the music they listen to. I then divide the questions into two parts. The first part of the survey is to understand my demographics; their sex, their age, if they have any hearing disabilities and their musical knowledge. And the second is to determine the participants' personal preference/habit when listening to music; such as how many hours do they spend listening to music, on what occasions do ...