The following guest post comes from Budi Voogt, an artist manager, label owner and Soundcloud enthusiast expert. In contrast, the core premise of almost all sociomusical approaches is the claim that there must be determinate relationships between music as sound structure and the social structure” of musical activity in particular, or more generally the social structure of the human communities in which particular idioms and genres of musicking take place.

At the university level, students in most arts and humanities programs can receive credit for taking a few music courses, which typically take the form of an overview course on the history of music , or a music appreciation course that focuses on listening to music and learning about different musical styles.

There is a strong suggestion that for most peoples outside Western and Eastern civilization music may be a functional rather than an aesthetic complex in which major emphasis is placed upon what music does rather than philosophic speculation on what it is. This in turn has considerable bearing upon the Western assumption of the interrelatedness of the various arts.

Composers as Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Spohr, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann; also, Liszt, Berlioz, and Wagner.” Their successful six-year tour of the United States set a higher standard of musicianship for American bands and orchestras and helped to establish a connection between European classical music and high culture.

The institute provides suggested songs by era and genre on its Web site, But those who don’t have the time or technical skills can send an iPod to the institute after filling out a questionnaire about the patient’s musical tastes, and the institute will program a customized iPod for them.