Music-centered music therapy / Kenneth Aigen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aigen, Kenneth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music therapy--Research--Methodology.

Music therapy.

Music therapy--Methods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gilsum, New Hampshire : Barcelona Publishers, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An ambitious and long-awaited text that sets out the basic practices and principles of approaches to music therapy that place music and musical experience in a central role. The text provides a philosophical and practical rationale for musical experience as a legitimate goal of clinical music therapy. An historical account is given of music-centered thinking in music therapy and the manifestation of this way of thinking in various contemporary music therapy models. The latter part of the book develops the specifics of aparticular music-centered theory that is meant to be applicable across diff

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface; Part I: The Context For Music-Centered Theory In Music Therapy; 1. The Nature of Theory; 2. Theory in Music Therapy; The Role of Theory in Contemporary Music Therapy; A Conceptual Framework for Music Therapy Theory; Metatheoretical Issues in Music Therapy; Part II: The Nature Of Music-Centered Theory And Practice; 3. Origins and Foundations of Music-Centered Music Therapy; What is Music-Centered Music Therapy and How Has It Developed?; Music as a Medium: One Basis of Music-Centered Theory

Musicing as the Core of Music-Centered PracticeThe Necessity of a Theory of Music as a Basis for Music-Centered Music Therapy; Can a Notion of Music Derived From Nonclinical Contexts Be the Basis for Music Therapy?; 4. Values Central to Musicing in Music-Centered Music Therapy; The Idea of Musical Values; Musicing Requires an Understanding of Silence; Musicing Requires Listening; Musicing Incorporates the Individual Within the Communal; Musicing Involves Surrender; Musicing Cultivates a Respect for Craft; Musicing Creates Connection

5. Rationales, Practices, and Implications of Music-Centered Music TherapyThe Client's Experience in Music Is Primary; Musical Goals Are Clinical Goals; The Primary Focus Is Enhancing the Client's Involvement in Music; The Convergence of Personal Process and Musical Development; The Intrinsic Rewards of Musical Participation; The Experience of the Musical Process Is the Therapy; Interventions Are Guided by Musical Properties; Music as an Autonomous Clinical Force; Musical Analysis Highlights Clinical Processes; Therapy Can Incorporate a Focus on Performance and Products

Verbal Processing Need Not Accompany Musical ExperiencesThe Therapeutic Relationship Is a Musical Relationship; Music-Centered Thinking Embraces Holism; An Alternative Perspective on Generalization; Generalization of Functioning Is Not a Necessary Criterion for Evaluating Music Therapy; 6. Music-Centered Thinking in Music Therapy Models; Analytical Music Therapy; Guided Imagery and Music; Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy; 7. Music-Centered Thinking in Contemporary Music Therapy Frameworks; Aesthetic Music Therapy; Community Music Therapy; Culture-Centered Music Therapy

Part III: A Philosophy Of Music For Music-Centered Music Therapy TheoryIntroduction to Part III; 8. Music Therapy and Schema Theory; Introduction to Schema Theory; Image Schemata in Music and Music Therapy; Time-as-Space, Force, and Motion in Music; Schema Theory and Areas of Benefit in Music Therapy; 9. Zuckerkandl's Dynamic Theory of Tone; Fundamental Aspects of Zuckerkandl's Theory; Applications to Music Therapy; Objections to Zuckerkandl's Ideas and Some Responses; 10. The Status of Musical Force, Motion, and Space: Reconciling Schema Theory and Zuckerkandl

Revisiting Schema Theory: The Ontological Status of Schemata

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 22, 2016).

ISBN:

1-283-36718-1

9786613367181

1-891278-89-4

OCLC:

956277434