Introduction: Music that works

It is with great satisfaction that I recall the international echo generated by the pioneering congress Mozart & Science 2006, addressing interdisciplinary research on the effects of music, which was initiated and then organised from 1st to 4th October in Baden, near Vienna, by the association of which I have the honour to be the President and under the auspices of the Federal State of Lower Austria. The I.M.A.R.A.A (International Music and Art Research Association Austria) was founded in 2003 in Vienna with the aim of providing a forum for those institutions already applying interdisciplinary approaches in this field to further education and to therapeutic approaches involving music. The member organisations of the I.M.A.R.A.A. made their expertise, their international networks and their resources available for Mozart & Science 2006 on a voluntary basis.