AeMT is a music-centered approach based on the belief that to understand music therapy we must first understand the structural make-up of music itself. Until recently, music therapy theories and approaches have come primarily from disciplines outside music. By linking music therapy with musicology and aesthetics, our clinical horizons become limitless. Combining theoretical with practical, the book provides philosophical debate, musical analysis of seminal works (J.S. Bach, Beethoven and Cage) and case studies that include audio excerpts from AeMT sessions. Included are chapters on musical from and clinical form, music therapy with a professional string quartet, and ruminations on being a composer/music therapist.