ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the positive benefits that music offer. Music offers enjoyment and pleasure in its own right, which contribute to positive health and emotional wellness across the lifespan, both at participatory and spectator levels. Music and medicine have been inextricably linked as twinned arts since ancient times and the echoes of this are seen in the modern professions of music therapy and healthcare play specialism. It is important to recognize that music as a means of medicine is a cross-cultural, international concept. The appreciation of music as a potential medical agent is one that is not confined to first world developed countries. The symbiotic relationship between music and medicine is invoked as the science with medicine as the art. Music therapy with stroke patients has shown that musical guided intonation can enhance speech ability. This therapeutic inspiration of music has been reflected in cases of other acquired brain injuries such as trauma and stroke.
