Introduction.- Part I. Socio-cultural, genetic and neurobiological foundations.- Music and well-being - a dynamically growing field of research.- Music and medicine - an overview.- Epidemiological studies on music and health.- Music and brain plasticity.- Mood in the musical brain.- Historical musician's medicine.- Part II. Music in clinical and educational inclusion practice.- Music medicine interventions in clinical medicine for pain, anxiety and stress.- Listening to music in depression and dementia: from brain research to clinical application.- Making music with hearing impaired children.- Inclusion, cultural participation and music.- The voice and opera doctor.- Part III. Music therapy in transition.- Introduction to Neurological Music Therapy.- Music therapy for children and young people with mental health problems - an overview.- Music for people with neurogenic disorders of consciousness.- Music in the treatment of depression from the perspective of music therapy and music psychology.- Music and cerebral palsy.- Part IV. Listening to music, amateur music-making and dancing.- Listening to music in everyday life.- Listening to music during the Covid-19 pandemic.- Listening to music and emotion regulation in adulthood.- Music as a trigger of strong emotions.- Health aspects of lay singing.- Health aspects of dance.- Part V. Musical education and well-being.- Health of the child's voice.- Singing voice and health.- Making music and emotion regulation in primary school children.- Music and cognitive development.- Positive effects of music making on perception and cognition from a neuroscientific perspective.- Performance and Stage Fright - Acquiring Competence through Musical Education in Childhood and Adolescence.- Healthy music making - prevention in instrumental lessons for children and young people.- Part VI. Health risks due to music.- Can music also make you ill?.- Hearing damage due to music consumption.- The dissected soul: music as an instrumentof torture.- Practical music practice in times of Corona.
