Music Therapy

Real music' is music made in regular settings, among people. 'Real music' draws on widespread parts of the brain, in unpredictable ways, and in ways that are adapted to each individual in their context.
In another sense, music is considered by neuromusicologists to be universal not because everyone in the world makes it, but because we all operate musically. If there is something universal about music it is our common musicality rather than our common music practices - the way music is made out of the connected operations within and among us rather than what is made. Similarly, Cross (2001a) writes that music is "universal yet multifarious" in that it is common to all, interdependently created, and simultaneously is experienced individually.
In summary, as soon as we consider 'real music' apart from laboratory experiments, we have to expect individually formed and quickly adaptive brain substrates, including widely distributed neuronal networks in both hemispheres. In our laboratories, we are just beginning to face the enormous challenges linked to the clarification of rules determining this puzzling variety of findings, determining the complexity and transitoriness of neuronal interactions during music processing.