Graphic Notation as a Tool in Describing and Analysing Music Therapy Improvisations

Abstract: Presents graphic notation as the making of listening scores to memorise or analyse improvised music therapy processes, capturing also those aspects the usual music notation would not cover. An example in some detail is shown, the music taken from a well-known Nordoff/Robbins recording. Training method, involving graphic brainstorm, using coordinative systems and other frameworks, interpretative method including working on specifically musical counter-transference and special graphic exercises are outlined. Work by students at Aalborg University, Denmark, is quoted. General perspectives including relations to music analysis in musicology and to the history, epistemolog and cultural status of musical notation is discussed.

Keyword(s): graphic-notation.

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