Being in Music: Foundations of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy
- Author: Aigen, Kenneth
- ISBN: 9781891278372
- E-ISBN: 9781891278914
Based on transcripts of Nordoff and Robbins from their final and most thorough teaching collaboration, this study illuminates concepts, values, and world views underlying this seminal approach to Creative Music Therapy. (1996, 78 pages)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface to the Barcelona Edition
Preface
Introduction
1. The Qualitative Method Employed in this Study
2. The Course at Goldie Leigh Hospital: Setting The Stage
3. Conceptual Framework
The Role of Technique
Therapist Preparation
Personalized Source of Music
Living in Music and the Evolution of Form
Musical Intelligence
Qualities of Clinical-Musical Interaction
Bringing Meaningful Experience
The Forces Latent in Music
Clinical Strategies
The Importance of Repetition: Improvised and Pre-composed Songs
Therapy and/or Teaching?
Conclusion
4. Themes
The Therapeutic Relationship
The Role of Values
The Therapeutic Process
The Demands of the Clinical Work
Implications and Effects of the Clinical Work
The Nordoff-Robbins Training
Closing Words
References
Appendix A: Theme Statements
Appendix B: Brief History of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy