music as therapy

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” 

Friedrick Nietzche.

The EA Music Service has a long and proud history, with over 60 years of experience in delivering inclusive music education in Northern Ireland. Through our passion, commitment and standards of excellence we have provided exciting, engaging, child centred musical experiences for hundreds of thousands of children and young people. We continue to provide vibrant, high quality, professional music education for our children and young people.

The Music Service offers an extensive range of varied and accessible musical opportunities. These can be accessed in school settings or in one of our many music centres across Northern Ireland. Instrumental tuition, vocal tuition and whole class initiatives nurture and motivate our children. We aim to offer a wide range of progression routes, supporting all our children in reaching their full potential. Through our team of passionate and professional tutors we inspire, support and challenge our pupils. We help them build confidence and self esteem. We help them to develop creativity, communication skills and many other academic and interpersonal skills.

A wide range of additional services support our school based music making. These are designed to support the pupil, school and wider community. We offer a dynamic range of ensemble playing opportunities tailored right from our youngest students through to our most senior, advanced musicians.

Make a Melody is one of the leading Music Therapy providers in Northern Ireland. Our therapy services extend to various locations, including schools, day centres, hospitals, hospices, residential support facilities, and personalised home visits. Music therapy sessions themselves, are a specialized form of therapy that utilises music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs. Our trained music therapists employ a wide variety of music-based interventions, such as improvisation, singing, playing instruments, song-writing, listening and discussions, in order to support clients in achieving their goals.  

Our vision is: “To see every child, young person and adult in Northern Ireland receive the level of music therapy service that meets their need”.

Music Therapy is widely recognised as a highly effective health intervention. Our music therapists are qualified and are registered and regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council. Every Day Harmony is passionate about, and committed to supporting, people who find communication and interaction difficult. This may be for a defined period in someone’s life or as the result of a lifelong condition. We believe that because music is a fundamental part of being human, it crosses all barriers. Year after year and person after person we see the evidence of that.

These sensory songs were created by Miss Rosie Henry who was working as a Music Therapist for Everyday Harmony in our local schools at that time.

This is a wonderful resource pack and the songs can be used as interactive music sessions with parents, corers, family members and their children.

Songs can be played numerous times for each interactive session.

Many thanks to Rosie for creating these lovely songs.