The purpose of this study was to investigate the trends of research in music therapy through the analysis of theses from 2001 to 2010, and to make some directions for the future development of music therapy research in Korea. The theses used in this study include theses of master’s and doctora’s degree, total of 961 and were divided by degree, major, and background of the researchers, subjects of the theses, methods and contents of the researches. The results of the analyses were listed as follows. First, degree of theses were divided as follows; 33 doctoral’s degrees and 928 master’s degrees. Those of all, there were 545 music therapy major’s theses and 416 of others. Second, subjects used in the theses were divided as follows; 374 disabilities, 465 non-disabilities, 60 patients and 62 others. Third, targeted research methods were divided as follows; 786 quantitative research methods, 102 literature research methods, 14 qualitative research methods and 59 quantitative-qualitative mixed research methods. Fourth, the field of emotion was the highest(40.8%) in the research contents.