Spontaneous Ritualized Play in Music Therapy: a Technical and Theoretical Analysis

Abstract: From the early social play of mother and infant to children's games and adult daily habits, ritualization serves its role as providing for the reassuring presence of the other one. Ritualization is defined as the creative phymical formalization of certain patterns of human interaction. Clinical examples will be used to distinguish this phenomenon from that of pathological ritualism. The paper will research into the spontaneous appearance of ritualized play within the context of music therapy. The research will be twofold. (a) technical analysis of ritualized play in music therapy: this will include analysis of clinical material in terms of the basic structural characteristics of the play. Parallels will then be drawn with ritualized play between mother and infant, and between children playing amongst themselves; (b) theoretical analysis of ritualization: this will trace its meaning throughout life and then focus on clinical material in order to discuss the theoretical implications of its spontaneous appearance in music therapy. This paper will be published by the BSMT late 1992, price on appliation.

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Keyword(s): Ritual, play, mother, infant, analysis, theory, clinical-example, creative-rhythmical-formalization, interaction.

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