Music -- WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) 2025


Photograph: Esk Community Choir (Alexis Fitzgerald, music director) is involved with many aspects of making music.

The World Health Organization released the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), 2025. This is important because music is part of our daily lives--including musical production, communication, writing / composing, rehearsing, listening, using assistive products and technology for culture, recreation and sport. The ICF provides a unified classification and terminology that can be used internationally for education, health, research.

Music is described in this way in the newly revised ICF, 2025:

  • b3400

Production of tones

Functions of production of musical vocal sounds.

  • d3151

Communicating with - receiving - general signs and symbols

Comprehending the meaning represented by public signs and symbols, such as traffic signs, warning symbols, musical or scientific notations, and icons.

  • d3351

Producing signs and symbols

Conveying meaning by using signs and symbols (e.g. icons, Bliss board, scientific symbols) and symbolic notation systems, such as using musical notation to convey a melody.

  • d135

Rehearsing

Repeating a sequence of events or symbols as a basic component of learning, such as counting by tens or practising the recitation of a rhyme with gestures or cords on a musical instrument.

  • e1401

Assistive products and technology for culture, recreation and sport

Adapted or specially designed equipment, products and technology used for the conduct and enhancement of cultural, recreational and sporting activities, such as modified mobility devices for sports, adaptations for musical and other artistic performance.

  • d115

Listening

Using the sense of hearing intentionally to experience auditory stimuli, such as listening to a radio, to the human voice, to music, to a lecture, or to a story told.

  • d920

Recreation and leisure

Engaging in any form of play, recreational or leisure pursuit, such as informal or organized play and sports, programmes of physical fitness, relaxation, amusement or diversion, going to art galleries, museums, cinemas or theatres; engaging in crafts or hobbies, reading or singing for enjoyment, playing musical instruments; sightseeings, tourism and travelling for pleasure.

    • d9202

Arts and culture

Engaging in, or appreciating, fine arts or cultural events, such as going to the theatre, cinema, museum or art gallery, or acting in a play, reading, being read to, dancing, singing or playing a musical instrument for enjoyment.


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