Music Therapy Improvisation for Groups Essential Leadership Competencies

Name: Music Therapy Improvisation for Groups Essential Leadership Competencies
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ISBN: 9781891278495

ISBN-10: 1891278495

ISBN-13: 9781891278495

Edition: 2007

Authors: Susan C. Gardstrom

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While more and more certified music therapists appear to be using improvisational methods, few published resources exist to guide training and development, especially at the undergraduate/entry level. This unprecedented book provides clinicians, educators, and trainers with knowledge-based and skill-based competencies in group improvisation leadership and a suggested sequence for instruction in these specific competencies.

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Barcelona Publishers
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction


Essential Competencies


Suggestions for Using This Book


Terms and Nomenclature of Improvisation


Foundational Definitions


Methods, Procedures, Techniques


Referential and Nonreferential Improvisations


Givens


Improvisation Versus a Drum Circle


Instruments of Improvisation


Instrumentarium


Mallets


Getting to Know Your Instruments


Ambidexterity


Selecting the Instruments


Quality


Number


Types


Client Age


Cautions


Needs and Objectives


The Therapist's Instrument


Arranging the Environment


Presenting the Instruments


Sound Vocabulary


Musical Elements of Improvisation


Rhythmic Elements


Language and Rhythm


Tonal Elements


Textural Elements


Dynamic Elements


Timbral Elements


Structures for Improvisation


Session Structures


Selecting and Presenting Givens and Referents


Selection


Presentation


Nonmusical Facilitation Skills (Verbal & Gestural)


Starting and Stopping


Starting


Stopping


Communicating During Improvisation


Movement


Physical Assistance


Musical Facilitation Skills


Techniques of Empathy


Imitating


Synchronizing


Incorporating


Pacing


Reflecting


Structuring Techniques


Rhythmic Grounding


Tonal Centering


Elicitation Techniques


Repeating


Modeling


Making Spaces


Interjecting


Redirection Techniques


Introducing Change


Intensifying


Intimacy Techniques


Sharing Instruments


Bonding


Soliloquizing


Procedural Techniques


Receding


Referential Techniques


Free Associating


Emotional Exploration Techniques


Holding


Doubling


Contrasting


Splitting


Transferring


Making Sense of What We Hear: The IAPs


Improvisation Assessment Profiles (IAPs)


Intramusical Relationships


Intermusical Relationships


The Profiles


Salience


Integration


Variability


Tension


Congruence


Autonomy


Summary and Caveats


Verbal Skills


To Process or Not to Process


Focal Point of Verbal Processing


Role of the Therapist


Verbal Techniques


Probe


Reflection of Feeling


Clarification


Checking Out


Self-Disclosure


Summary


Closing


Essential Competencies for Clinical Improvisation


Exercises


Referents for Clinical Music Improvisation


Harmonic Progressions/Vamps


Givens/Parameters


IAP Profiles and Scales


References