Forms of Feeling Using Improvisations in Music Therapy

Abstract: Some Music Therapsits regard improvisations as principal approach to the unconscious. But what does this music tell us? How are we able to discover its intrinsic meaning? And what kind of meaning could this be? Based on some psychological theories suggestions are made of how to deal with improvisations as well in practise as in research. The musical structures developing between client and therapist correspond to basic forms of feelings and intersubjective relatedness. Music (together with other arts) can be seen as part of a symbolic system, in which the not verbalized parts of human experience find their expression. With the procedure of 'description and reconstruction' a way of analysing and assessing the morphology of improvised music will be presented; its relevance to music therapy will be discssed by means of a few examples. This paper will be published by the BSMT later in l992, price on application.

Keyword(s): Improvisation, music-therapy, muscial-structure, theory.

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