MUFHL 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Precomposed Character, Song Structure, Music Therapy

• School: American River College
• Department: Music Fundamentals/History and Literature
• Course: MUFHL 300
• Professor: Hughes

Document Summary

Precomposed music able listening to familiar music can help them with associating that music with a time in their life (which will help them with their memory) Precomposed music is music that was written by somebody already. The songs we choose, as a music therapy group will come from the client not from the. When we listen to music together it can evoke memories and give a point of reference. Music time line something you would do with someone who is more cognitively. Familiarity you have heard it before, you know what is coming next . Security when we can predict what is coming next we feel more secure. Memory formation because it is structured and predictable there is a greater. Temporal chunking principles in non-musical memory processes. Music structure aba structure - verse then chorus then verse then chorus. A lot of people don"t like to sing out in public when they get older because it is childish .