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Many people feel music affects human, which means we feel activated or inspired when we hear music tailored to our feelings. This effect has been the basis of music therapy. However, no scientifically systematic approach for investigating the effects of music on human health has been proposed, although a set of analytic methods or apparatuses for evaluating human responses to music has been described. Herein is a new book entitled Systematic Approach Elucidating Effects of Music on Human Health: Trinity of Medicine, Musicology, and Engineering, which states and proposes a new systemic approach to elucidate effects of music on human health. This book proposes a concept that supposes humans as a black box and tries to elucidate its behaviors by analyzing the input and output from the black box: the input is music, while output is human reactions. This book then describes two aspects of input analysis that are musicology and engineering, and two aspects of output analysis that are medicine and engineering. After stating the analysis method in detail, this book shows integration processes of these analysis aspects, presenting three research examples. These research examples are Effects of Ethnic Music on Elderly Dementia Patients, the Effect of Music upon Awakening from a Nap, and the Effect of Music on Biological Responses during Sports Activities. Though these research examples may look to focus on different research subjects, a single and robust systemic approach underlies the research. This book is useful for researchers who have interests in studying the effect of music on human health with some knowledge of musicology, engineering, psychology, and neuroscience. This book proposes a firm systemic methodology for them and helps them to perform further studies of their own. Music therapists, music composers, and music artists also may feel interested in this book.

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Dr Yuki Tanaka received the Bachelor of Engineering from Tokai University, Japan in 2005, and the Master of Engineering from Tokai University, Japan, in 2007. She acquired Ph.D. in 2011 at Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School. She has studied piano under Toshie NAKASHIMA (Pianist) since the age of 4 years old since 1985. She participated the following piano contests: the student music competition of Japan, the Hupfer peace memory Tosu piano competition, Oita eisteddfod piano section, the youth section of the Takahiro Sonoda Prize international piano competition, and so on. In recent years, she received the prize for encouragement in An die Musik Piano contest in 2009. She has been a part-time lecturer at College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University from 2011, and at School of Medicine, Nihon University from 2013. Her current research interest is a systematic view giving a scientific knowledge of human reaction to music, which enables a concrete guide for composing better music to dementia patients. For her excellent study and research performance, she received the Nobuko Matsumae prize for the encouragement of the Shigeyoshi Matsumae memorial fund from educational foundation Tokai University in 2005.

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