ART AND SCIENCE: ANALYSIS OF THE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES OF THE SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION IN MUSIC THERAPY

Abstract

The area of Music Therapy has as its fundamental characteristic to permeate science and art simultaneously, revealing a field of action whose space of development can be evidenced from a contemporary conception of interdomain. This study intends to point out the possible epistemological and philosophical fundamentals used as basis for the development of research on Music Therapy in Brazil. In order to do this, it was reviewed scientific articles published in stratified national journals, in the most diverse areas of knowledge, with the term Music Therapy, between 2004-2014, having as object of study the methodological options. From the results of the work, a framework of the methodological approaches used in Music Therapy was elaborated, contributing to rethink the area as an interdependence, whose evolution of methodologies is raised by science and art.