Thesis
Integrating improvisation with patient preferred music in adult medical music therapy
Master of Arts (M.A.), Drexel University
Jun 2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00002028
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to develop a methodology for integrating improvisation and patient preferred music in adult medical music therapy. Literature pertaining to relevant definitions, research and existing practice in music therapy with a focus on adults in medical settings will be reviewed. Research and writing on the history, cultural implications and methods of improvisation within music therapy, neuroscience research on improvisation, and music therapy writings and research on patient preferred music will be reviewed. Three clinical vignettes incorporating contrasting methods of integrating improvisation with patient preferred music will be provided and discussed. Recommendations for practice, education, and research based on discoveries from analysis of literature and practice will be provided in the final chapter. These recommendations will focus on the musical and relational elements of practice; listening, learning by ear and building repertoire in education, and ideas for research in relational elements of improvisation in music therapy as well as with specific populations.
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- Title
- Integrating improvisation with patient preferred music in adult medical music therapy
- Creators
- Silas Rousseau Stewart
- Contributors
- Scott A. Horowitz (Advisor) - Drexel University, Creative Arts Therapies
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- vii, 48 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies; College of Nursing and Health Professions; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991021882315704721