by Nancy O'Brien, MCAT, MT-BC | Oct 31, 2018 | Music Therapy
Why don’t music therapists use the harp more often? Perhaps it is because music therapists are unaware of the benefits of the harp in their practice! Once I discovered the instrument years ago, I found myself utilizing the harp for music therapy more and more within...
by Katie Senn | Oct 1, 2018 | Company Culture, Music Therapy, Music, Books, & Resources
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The annual campaign was initiated in 1985 by some of the top breast cancer charities. The initial and sustaining goals of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is to raise understanding and funding for research. Furthermore, the aim...
by West Music Company | Nov 6, 2017 | Music Therapy, Press Releases
Coralville, IA – November 6, 2017 – KALA radio held a Fourth of July broadcast about Charles Harper, a Vietnam veteran who was invited to their station to transfer his old recordings into a digital format. As a young man, Harper was a proficient musician and received...
by West Music Company | Oct 2, 2017 | Music Therapy
It’s Science! Basic Acoustics: Frequency, Wavelength & Pitch Music is the wondrous meeting place of art and science. Part One of “It’s Science!”explained how the volume of a sound is determined by the amplitude of the sound wave. Sound waves have many other...
by West Music Company | Mar 10, 2016 | Music Advocacy, Music Therapy
The music therapy discipline is a fundamental and highly respected element of care for people with dementia, developmental and learning disabilities, brain injuries, and many other conditions—and the University of Iowa School of Music has contributed in important ways...
by West Music Company | Feb 24, 2016 | Extraordinary Associate of the Month, Music Therapy
Since she became the first music therapist for West Music in Urbandale, Jenny has taken the area by storm! We knew Jenny was a good egg when we hired her but had no idea how amazing she truly is! While we initially thought it would take some time to fill her caseload,...