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

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Presents graphic notation as the making of aural scores to memorise or analyse improvised music therapy processes, capturing also those aspectsthe 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 brainstorms,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,epistemology and cultural status of musical notation is discussed.
Original languageEnglish
JournalMusic Therapy
Publication date1993
Volume12
Journal number1
Pages40-58
ISSN0734-7367
StatePublished

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