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- Clinical Improvisation is a generative and creative process of musical intervention involving the client's spontaneous creation of sounds and music. It helps the client to explore aspects of self, in relation to others, in an appropriate way. Improvisation also generates new and individualized musical forms.
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For example, musician Tang-Chun Li, in ‘Who or What is Making the Music: Music Creation in a Machine Age’, defines the act of composing by improvisation as, ‘To externalise the ideas and constructs of the mind, or mental maps, by performing some operations on some type (s) of sonic medium’ (Li, 1999: 57).
In music therapy, imagination finds its place in the creative development of improvised music, and this chapter explores both the technical aspects of improvisation as a creative force as well as the potential for themes, images, stories, and pictures to provide the imaginative fuel to drive the improvisation experience.
Aug 30, 2020 · Four composite case examples are presented and discussed as they relate to emotional expression, significant moments in the therapeutic process, and communication using a variety of modalities in music therapy with adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Jan 1, 1989 · Comprehensive clinical improvisation knowledge and skills may include those for assessing, planning, designing, facilitating (musically, verbally, and through gesture IGardstrom, 2007]), and...
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- Characteristics of Improvisation
- Effects on Health Or Wellbeing
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- Aesthetic and Therapeutic Improvising
The Medline and PsycInfo databases were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles in English with all of the search terms music*, improvis* and either therap*, well-being or health* in the abstract, returning 177 articles. In addition published works known to the authors were reviewed, and the reference lists of identified articles were checked f...
Although database searches were not exclusively limited to interventions labelled as ‘therapy’, all the relevant references examined or discussed music therapy; that is, improvisation undertaken with therapeutic intent, involving a trained and certified music therapist. Rolvsjord et al. ([2005]) identifies improvisation as an ‘essential but not uni...
Therapy involving musical improvisation has been studied in application to a wide range of groups and conditions, including patients in rehabilitation from neurological damage (Aigen [2009]; Pavlicevic and Ansdell [2004]); patients with substance use disorders (Albornoz [2011]); cancer patients (Burns et al. [2001]; Pothoulaki et al. [2012]); patie...
The mechanisms by which improvisation facilitates enhancements to health or wellbeing are not always specified in the literature, where the focus may be on demonstrating effectiveness of the intervention as a whole. This is largely the case for studies observing an effect of improvisation on physical conditions arising from neurological damage, alt...
The literature reviewed above has examined uses of musical improvisation within therapy. Improvisation is of course more widely practiced than in therapy alone, primarily for aesthetic purposes (Aldridge [1998]). To consider how the study of therapeutic improvising might inform our understanding of improvising in other contexts, it is important to ...
- Raymond Ar MacDonald, Graeme B Wilson
- 2014
Jan 1, 1996 · This article defines and describes a theory of psychodynamic music therapy that emphasizes the role of improvised music. Three ways in which improvised music functions within a psychodynamic framework are illustrated: as pure experience in the here and now; as a mediator between conscious an unconscious contents; and as a symbolic language.
In music therapy improvisation is defined as a process where the client and therapist relate to each other. The client makes up music, musical improvisation, while singing or playing, extemporaneously creating a melody, rhythm, song, or instrumental piece.