In many places in the Western world where music therapy occurs, improvisation is a significant and widespread practice in clinical work. The question of the nature of improvisation in music therapy is the topic of this enquiry, with particular reference to musical ontology and aesthetics. I examine how a consideration of ontology enables a distinction to be drawn between the music made within the clinical setting, known as clinical improvisation, and music that is made elsewhere. The context for this enquiry is the music therapy practice of the UK. Through an examination of the recent history of this practice, I establish two distinct approaches to clinical improvisation in the UK, music-centred and psychodynamic. I show how there are diff...
A large part of the ontology of music is formalistic and objectivistic: it regards musical works as ...
In this article, the technique of music therapy – music therapy improvisation is introduced. I...
The subject of aesthetic experience as it relates to music embodies a vast and fascinating territory...
The article discusses how music therapy, considered as a discipline as well as arenas of different p...
A large part of the ontology of music is formalistic and objectivistic: it regards musical works as ...
This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the link in this record.I...
Attempts to make sense of improvisation in music therapy of ten rely on psychological, medical, psyc...
This first-person arts-based research aims to explore the student-researcher’s personal decision-mak...
Abstract: Improvisation in Education. From Madness to Art. For our contribution we want to focus on...
This chapter will focus on current research into musical communication in clinical improvisation as...
This article explores distinctions between different approaches to music therapy and how these disti...
Intuition is a crucial facet of the creative process and influences the clinical pathways of music t...
Music therapy uses music to develop, to restore, to rehabilitate the psychological workings/fiinctio...
Music therapy has faced challenges to practice during lockdown. This co-first authored study conside...
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate meaning-making in clinical music improvisat...
A large part of the ontology of music is formalistic and objectivistic: it regards musical works as ...
In this article, the technique of music therapy – music therapy improvisation is introduced. I...
The subject of aesthetic experience as it relates to music embodies a vast and fascinating territory...
The article discusses how music therapy, considered as a discipline as well as arenas of different p...
A large part of the ontology of music is formalistic and objectivistic: it regards musical works as ...
This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the link in this record.I...
Attempts to make sense of improvisation in music therapy of ten rely on psychological, medical, psyc...
This first-person arts-based research aims to explore the student-researcher’s personal decision-mak...
Abstract: Improvisation in Education. From Madness to Art. For our contribution we want to focus on...
This chapter will focus on current research into musical communication in clinical improvisation as...
This article explores distinctions between different approaches to music therapy and how these disti...
Intuition is a crucial facet of the creative process and influences the clinical pathways of music t...
Music therapy uses music to develop, to restore, to rehabilitate the psychological workings/fiinctio...
Music therapy has faced challenges to practice during lockdown. This co-first authored study conside...
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate meaning-making in clinical music improvisat...
A large part of the ontology of music is formalistic and objectivistic: it regards musical works as ...
In this article, the technique of music therapy – music therapy improvisation is introduced. I...
The subject of aesthetic experience as it relates to music embodies a vast and fascinating territory...