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Jul 27, 2017 · As a music therapy process, clinical improvisation is the free or guided extemporaneous use of music, undertaken by the therapist and/or client, using a range of tuned and untuned instruments and voice, to maintain or improve health (Bruscia, 1987).
- Anthony Meadows, Katherine Wimpenny
- 2017
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.
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.
Jan 31, 2020 · This article explores historical contexts for improvisation in music therapy, and ways we might begin to think about and define this complex topic.
Aug 7, 2013 · This article presents and discusses a long-term repeated-immersion research process that explores meaning allocated to an episode of 50 seconds of music improvisation in early neurosurgical rehabilitation by a teenage boy with severe traumatic brain injury and his music therapist.
- Simon Gilbertson
- 2013
May 1, 1989 · The author describes improvisational music therapy from a practical perspective. Improvisational techniques are employed for assessment, treatment, or evaluation. Under the heading “Preparing for Therapy,” topics include contraindications, the use of music and improvisation, individual versus group sessions, active versus receptive ...
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Sep 1, 2019 · The objectives of the improvisational music therapy development are: (1) to identify a model to explain how emotion dysregulation may affect depressive symptoms; (2) to identify a model to clarify as to how improvisational music therapy may change depressive symptoms; (3) to develop a prototype music therapy treatment for preventing depressive ...
