Table of Contents

Foreword; Introduction; Frameworks for using music as a therapeutic agent for hospitalized newborn infants; Musical development in infancy; Non-musical benefits of school-based music education & training; Educating amateurs: New technologies & models to enhance music participation in western societies; Music & adolescents; Musicking & the performance of gender: A double act; Music & neural plasticity; Reconceptualizing musicianship: Music performance & training through to music reception & engagement; The Mozart effect: An opportunity to examine the cognitive neuroscience of music listening; Music listening & emotional well-being; Music creativity & mental illness; Music for dementia & Parkinson's disease in the elderly; Index.