MU158 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Music Therapy
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The way mts define music experience is based on the clinical contexts in which they work. Nonjudgemental acceptance of whatever the client does musically and clear priorities with regard to the purpose, value and meaning of music within the therapy process is important. Music: the human institution in which individuals create meaning and beauty through sound, using the arts of composition, improvisation, performance, and listening. Four specific types of music experience serve as primary methods of music therapy: listening, improvising, re-creating, composing. Each can be presented with emphasis on different sensory modalities, with or without verbal discourse, and in various combinations with the other arts. Facets of music experiences can be used for therapeutic purposes that are physical, emotional, mental, relational and spiritual. Depending on how intrinsically musical the sounds and activities are, the experience may be described as premusical, musical, extramusical, paramusical, or nonmusical.
