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MUSIC THERAPY 1952
SECOND BOOK OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR
MUSIC THERAPY
Founded 1950
Volume II
Papers from the Third Annual Convention, T opel~a, Kansas
ESTHER GOETZ GILLILAND, Editor
Lawrence, Kansas
Published by the National Association for Music Therapy
1953
Copyright 1953 by the
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC THERAPY
Printed in the United States of America
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THE ALLEN PRESS
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IN MEMORIAM
Publication of this book was made possible through the
generosity of Mrs. Hartwig Dierks, our treasurer, who gave a
substantial gift in loving memory of her husband, the late Dr.
Hartwig G. Dierks ( 1890-1950), founder of the Lutheran Church
of the Redeemer in Kansas City, Missouri, and pastor there for
twenty-seven years except during his service-center work in
Europe from 1944 to 1946, where he operated Lutheran Chmch
Centers in London, Paris and Frankfurt. Shortly before his death
Dr. Dierks joined the public relations staff of the Lutheran Hour,
broadcast weekly by more than one thousand radio stations.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This second Book of Proceedings, Music THERAPY 1952 pre-
sents the coordinated effort of a large group of eminent leaders
representing various allied professions, and all eager to advance
the use of music in medicine. The authors who prepared papers
for presentation at the Third Annual Meeting of the National As-
sociation for Music Therapy, held in Topeka, Kansas, October
30-November 1, 1952, under the leadership of E. Thayer Gaston,
Program Chairman, deserve recognition for their valuable con-
tributions.
Those who have helped edit manuscripts, correct proof and
perform the arduous tasks connected with publication deserve
special recognition for their unselfish services so generously ten-
dered. To Marjorie Scanlon, Mrs. Alan Wells, and Mrs. Gilbert
Liebenow, we acknowledge our deepest gratitude.
Public acknowledgment is hereby given to the generosity of
Edwina Eustis, who through personal service to the Musicians
Emergency Fund, made possible the establishment of this subsidy
for printing Music THERAPY 1951 as a permanent gift rather than
a loan to the Publication Fund of the National Association for
Music Therapy.
ESTHER GoETZ GILLILAND
EDITOR
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OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR MUSIC THERAPY, 1952-1953
President:
E. THAYER GASTON, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Music
Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence; Member Re-
search Committee, NAMT; Chairman, Committee on Music
in Therapy, Member Committee on Psychology of Music,
Music Teachers National Association; Member committee on
Graduate Study and Research in Music Education, Music
Educators National Conference; Consultant in Music Ther-
apy to Winter VA Hospital, Topeka State Hospital and The
Menninger Clinic.
First Vice-President and Program Chairman:
LENARD QUINTO, Chief of Music, Recreation Service, Special
Services, Veterans Administration, Washington 25, D. C.
Second Vice-President and Membership Chairman:
MYRTLE FISH THOMPSON, Music Therapy Director, Essex
County Overbrook Hospital, Cedar Grove, N.J.
Recording Secretary:
EDWINA EusTis, Director of Special Projects, Hospitalized
Veterans Music Service, Musicians Emergency Fund, 113
West 57th Street, New York 19, N.Y.
Corresponding Secretary:
Jo ANN COBB, Music Education Department, University of
Kansas, Lawrence.
Treasurer:
MRS. HARTWIG DIERKS, Hospital Music Chairman, National
Federation of Music Clubs, 5050 Oak Street, Kansas City 2,
Mo.
Editor:
ESTHER GOETZ GILLILAND, Chairman, Music Therapy De-
partment, Chicago Musical College; Chairman, Music De-
partment, Wilson Junior College, Chicago; Music Therapy
Counselor to Sigma Alpha Iota; Member Executive Com-
mittee, Music Teachers National Association; Member Com-
mittee on Music Education for Exceptional Children, Music
Educators National Conference; Fellow, American Society
of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama.
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MEMBERS-AT-LARGE OF THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
ESTHER GOETZ GILLILAND, Past President, NAMT; Chicago Mu-
sical College, 64 East Van Buren Street, Chicago 5, Ill.
(1953)
IRA M. ALTSHULER, M.D., Director of Group-Music Therapy,
Wayne County General Hospital, Eloise, Mich. Member
Research Committee, NAMT. ( 1953)
JOHN M. ANDERSON, M.D., Suite 6, 15 Peachtree Place, N .W.,
Atlanta, Ga. ( 1954)
LoIS BENEDICT, Music Director, Los Angeles City Jail, Women's
Division, and Juvenile Hall; 7162 Sunset Boulevard, Holly-
wood 46, Calif. ( 1954)
MARIANA BING,, Assistant Director, Service in Veterans Hospitals,
American Red Cross, National Headquarters, Washington
13, D.C. (1954)
DOROTHY BRIN CROCKER, Director of Music Therapy, Shady
Brook Schools, Dallas, Tex. ( 1955)
FRANCIS W. HEil\TLEN, Recreation Director, VA hospital, Downey,
Ill. ( 1953)
KAm. MENNINGER, M.D., The Menninger Foundation, Topeka,
Kans. ( 1955)
DONALD E. MICHEL, Director of Music Therapy, Winter VA Hos-
pital, Topeka, Kans. ( 1955)
ARTHUR FLAGLER FULTZ, Chairman Research Committee, NAMT;
Director, Musical Guidance, 41 Mt. Vernon, Boston 8, Mass.;
Member Committee on Music in Therapy, Music Teachers
National Association.
RoY UNDERWOOD, Mus.D., Chairman Education Committee, NA
MT; Director, Division of Fine Arts and Head of the Music
Department, Michigan State College, East Lansing, Mich.;
Member Committee on Music in Therapy, and Executive
Committee, Music Teachers National Association. ( 1953)
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MUSIC THERAPY RESEARCH COMMITTEE
.ARTHUR FLAGLER FULTZ, Chainnan; Director) Musical Guidance,
a Center for Functional Music; 41 Mt. Vernon, Boston 8,
Mass. ( 1954)
IRA M. ALTSHULER, M.D., Director of Group-Music Therapy,
Wayne County General Hospital, Eloise, Mich. ( 1953)
E. THAYER GASTON, Ph.D., President NAMT (1956). (See offi-
cers)
JULES H. MASSERMAN, M.D., Professor of Nervous and Mental
Diseases, Northwestern University; Scientific Director, Na-
tional Foundation of Psychiatric Research; Chief Consultant
in charge of Post-Graduate Training, Veterans Administra-
tion; 8 South Michigan Av enue, Chicago 3, Ill. ( 1955)
ABE PEPINSKY, Ph.D., Head of Department of Psychology, Haver-
ford College, Haverford, Penn.; Chairman, Committee on
Psychology of Music and Member Committee on Music in
Therapy, Music Teachers National Association; Psychologi-
cal Consultant to the Human Factors Division, U. S. Navy
Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, Calif.; President Mental
Hygiene Society of Montgomery County, Penn.; Member of
Board, Mental Health Association of Southeast Penn.; Con-
sultant to the Brothers Association of Philadelphia, in
Juvenile Delinquency; Fellow Acoustical Society of America;
Associate American Psychological Association; Member Min-
nesota and Iowa Academies of Science. ( 1957)
LIFE MEMBERS
MRs. HARTWIG DmRKs, Kansas City, Mo.
EDWINA Eusns, New York City.
CARL HAVERLIN, President, Broadcast Music, Inc., New York
City.
MARY HowE, Washington, D.C.
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PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
MUSIC THERAPY
The official Bulletin of the Association, formerly known as
HosPITAL Music NJ<.."'WSLETTER is issued in January, May, and
September at 50 cents per copy or $1.25 yearly. All members
in good standing are entitled to receive the Bulletin gratis. Back
issues for 1952 are available at 40c per copy; for 1953 at 50c.
Ten back issues of the HosPITAL Mus1c NEWSLETTER, beginning
with September 1948 are available from the Editor at 40c each.
MUSIC THERAPY 1951
The first Book of Proceedings of NAMT containing papers
from the second annual convention, held in Chicago, November
9th, 10th, and 11th, 1951, at the La Salle Hotel, is now in its
second printing and available from the Allen Press, Lawrence,
Kansas, for $3.68, postpaid U.S.A.
PREFACE-The Development 0£ Music Therapy
as a Profession
PART I-Music to Aid the Handicapped Child
PART II-Demonstrations
PART III-Scope of the Hospital Music
Program and Professional Opportunities
PART IV-Volunteer Music Service in Hospitals
PART V-Musical Creativity and Emotional
Conflict
PART VI-Patient Benefits of Community
Concerts
PAET VII-Report of Research Committee
PART VIII-Bibliography on Music Therapy
600 Classified Items
BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MUSIC THERAPY
Separate, $1.10 postpaid U.S.A.
PAMPHLET-MUSIC THERAPY AS A CAREER
Prepared by the Education Committee for free distribution,
giving Opportunities for Employment, Personal Qualifications
and Education Qualifications, this pamphlet is available from
the Chairman, Dr. Roy Underwood, Michigan State College,
East Lansing~ Michigan.
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CONSTITUTION OF THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC THERAPY
ARTICLE I
Name
The name of the organization shall be National Association for Music
Therapy.
ARTICLE II
Pttrposes and Objectives
SECTION 1. The purpose of the Association shall be the progressive
development of the use of music in medicine, and the advancement of
research, interests, and standards of music therapy.
SECTION 2. The objectives of the Association shall be those which aid
medical treatment most effectively toward patient welfare, improvement,
and rehabilitation.
ARTICLE III
Membership
SECTION 1. Membership in the Association shall be of eight classes:
active, associate, student, contributing, sustaining, life, patron, and honor-
ary.
SECTION 2. Membership privileges and annual dues shall be pre-
scribed in the By-laws of the Association.
ARTICLE IV
Officers
SECTION 1. The officers of the Association shall be a President, two
( 2) Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a
Treasurer, an Editor, and an Archivist. The authority and duty of each
official shall be such as is defined in the By-laws.
SECTION 2. All officers, with the exception of the Corresponding
Secretary, the Editor, and the Archivist, shall be elected by ballot at the
annual meeting and continue in office for one year, or until the next
subsequent election.
SECTION 3. No member, with the exception of the Treasurer, the
Editor, and the Archivist, shall hold the same office for more than two
consecutive terms.
SECTION 4. Elections shall be conducted as stated in the By-laws.
ARTICLE V
Executive Committee
SECTION 1. The Executive Committee shall consist of eighteen mem-
bers, the President, the Immediate Past-President, the two (2) Vice-
Presidents, the Recording Secretary, the Treasurer, the Editor, and nine (9)
members-at-large in addition to the chairman of the Education Committee,
chairman of the Research Committee. This committee shall have power to
transact the general business of the Association and shall be responsible for
the management and control of its funds. It shall be empowered to appoint
assistants to any officer of the Association.
SECTION 2. At the Annual Meeting for the year 1952, there shall be
elected nine ( 9) Executive Committee members-at-large, of whom three
shall serve for three years, three shall serve for two years, and three shall
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Constitution
serve for one year. Thereafter three ( 3) members-at-large shall be elected
annually to serve for three years. Any vacancy existing in the Executive
Committee at the time of the Annual Meeting shall be filled by the conven-
tion.
ARTICLE VI
Meetings
SECTION 1. Annual meetings of the Association shall be held at such
time and place as shall be determined by the Executive Committee.
SECTION 2. Special meetings of the Association shall be called by the
President if requested by seven ( 7) members of the Executive Committee
or upon a signed petition by fifty ( 50) paid-up active members of the
Association. The call for the special meeting must state the business to be
transacted and no business shall be transacted except that specified in the
call.
ARTICLE VII
Quorum
SECTION 1. Executive Committee. Seven ( 7) members of the Execu-
tive Committee, of which at least three must be officers, shall constitute a
quorum.
SECTION 2. The normal quorum of the Executive Committee plus
five per cent ( 5%) of the active membership of the Association shall con-
stitute a quorum for the annual business meetings. At no time shall the
lack of a quorum at a non-business session prevent those present from
proceeding with the program of the day.
ARTICLE VIII
Amendments
SECTION 1. This constitution may be amended at any Annual Meet-
ing by a two-thirds vote of the active members present, the proposed
amendments having been submitted to the membership at least four weeks
in advance of the meeting.
SECTION 2. By-laws may be adopted, amended, or repealed at any
session of an Annual Meeting by a two-thirds vote of the active members
present, the proposed changes having been announced at least twenty-four
hours prior to said session.
BY-LAWS
ARTICLE I
SECTION 1. Active membership shall be open to all persons engaged
in the use of music in therapy including music specialists, therapists, phy-
sicians, psychologists, administrators, or educators, and shall provide the
privileges of participation in the activities of the Association, the right to
vote, to hold office, and to receive all issues of the NAMT BULLETIN.
SECTION 2. Associate membership shall be open to music volunteers
or individuals who are not professionally engaged in the use of music in
therapy and who wish to support the program of the Association. Such
membership shall provide for admission to conventions of the Association
and all issues of the NAMT BULLETIN, but does not include the right
to vote or to hold office.
SECTION 3. Student membership shall be open to bonafide students
enrolled in music therapy training courses at the college level. Student
members are entitled to receive all issues of the NAMT BULLETIN and
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