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Abstract This study aimed to describe perceptions and feelings experienced by companions of children during the hospitalization period and when they were submitted to musical hearing in the child's post-operative period. This is a descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, carried out with 27 companions of children hospitalized in a pediatric surgical clinic. The participants heard relaxing instrumental music for fifteen minutes. Data were collected from December 2017 to March 2018, through semi-structured interviews, and subjected to thematic content analysis. Two thematic categories representing the perceptions and feelings experienced by the participants were created: “The child's post-surgical hospitalization process for the companion” and “F-A-E: music in the expression of feelings”, which is subdivided into three other subcategories: Music in the harmonization of feelings; The evocation of images from music; and Recommendations for the use of musical intervention. Musical hearing provided a positive experience and also emotional well-being for companions of children in the post-operative period.

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