To explore the effects of music therapy combined with speech language therapy on the recovery of language skills in cases with non-fluent aphasia following stroke. Methods: Thirty-seven patients with stroke who presented with non-fluent aphasia were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n=19) and the control group (n=18). All cases received conventional pharmacotherapy and rehabilitation training. The experimental group received additional 30 min music therapy and 30 min speech language therapy sessions while the control group received 1 h speech language therapy sessions only. Music therapy and speech language therapy were conducted once a day, 5 days a week, for a total of 4 weeks. Four subtests on spoken language in the Chinese version of the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) and the six-point Goodglass-Kaplan’s Aphasia Severity Rating Scale (ASRS) were performed to evaluate language capability before and after treatment. Re? sults: All WAB scores and ASRS scores improved significantly in both experimental and control groups after 4 weeks of treatment (P<0.01). The experimental group showed significantly greater improvement than control group in fluency, repetition, naming, and aphasia quotient (AQ) scores after treatment (P<0.05). However, there was no significant difference in information content, spontaneous speech, auditory comprehension, and ASRS scores between the two groups after treatment (P>0.05). Conclusion: Combining music therapy with speech language therapy can improve language performance in patients with non-fluent aphasia following stroke, especially for verbal fluency, repetition, and naming abilities.