Man and music

Journal/Book: Nordic Journal of Music Therapy. 1995; 4: 83-98.

Abstract: An adequate understanding of the nature of man and his behavior is incomplete without some knowledge of his development. To apprehend music as an essential form of human behavior is to make more secure the foundations of music in therapy. Music therapy has long needed such a platform for its theoretical constructs, one that would be in accord with biological as well as psychological concepts. It has needed knowledge derived from a multidisciplinary approach. Music therapy is closely related to the behavioral sciences. As is the case in all sciences, music therapy strives to bring about organization, classification, and description until a system emerges, a system that is behavioral, logical, and psychological. To bring more comprehension of man and music and to describe processes in music therapy are the major purposes of this book .

Note: E. Thayer Gaston var en ledende figur i pionerfasen av amerikansk musikkterapi, og hadde stor innflytelse på utviklinga av musikkterapi som en moderne profesjon i USA. Han var professor i musikkpedagogikk og leder for musikkterapistudiet ved University of Kansas, da han i 1968 redigerte boka "Music in Therapy", publisert av forlaget MacMillan Publishing Co. Inc.. Denne boka var lenge sentral lærebok ved de fleste musikkterapiutdanningene i USA. Artikkelen "Man and Music" (s 7-29) danner, sammen med Sears' "Processes in Music Therapy" (som vil bli publisert i neste nummer av tidsskriftet), innledninga til boka. Artikkelen er her publisert med tillatelse av Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

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