TY - UNPB
T1 - Developing clinical piano improvisation skills
T2 - a structured approach to teaching and using musical techniques and therapeutic methods
AU - Wigram, Anthony Lewis
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Teaching piano improvisation skills for use in clinical work relies on the
development of a range of musical techniques and therapeutic methods that are
combined and integrated. Simple musical styles of playing such as melody
dialogues, two chord accompaniments, walking basses (tonal and atonal), 6ths
with octave grounds, pentatonic and Spanish style frameworks are easily learnt
and applied through in combination with therapeutic approaches such as matching,
supporting, frame-working grounding and many others. The use of transitions in
therapeutic improvisation are a primary and musically skilful way of helping a
client or group of clients move, or develop their musical expression (Wigram
& Bonde 2002 pp 278-279). Frame-working is a method that offers a musical
structure to the music of a client. This structure could have the goal of
enhancing the music aesthetically, or guiding the client in a new direction.
Structure and lack of structure play a balanced role in the clinical process,
and reflects the skills of the therapist to musically meet the needs of the
client. This workshop will provide teaching and practice tools for the
participants that are intended to sustain the creativity of improvisation while
adding some clear structure and method to its clinical
application
AB - Teaching piano improvisation skills for use in clinical work relies on the
development of a range of musical techniques and therapeutic methods that are
combined and integrated. Simple musical styles of playing such as melody
dialogues, two chord accompaniments, walking basses (tonal and atonal), 6ths
with octave grounds, pentatonic and Spanish style frameworks are easily learnt
and applied through in combination with therapeutic approaches such as matching,
supporting, frame-working grounding and many others. The use of transitions in
therapeutic improvisation are a primary and musically skilful way of helping a
client or group of clients move, or develop their musical expression (Wigram
& Bonde 2002 pp 278-279). Frame-working is a method that offers a musical
structure to the music of a client. This structure could have the goal of
enhancing the music aesthetically, or guiding the client in a new direction.
Structure and lack of structure play a balanced role in the clinical process,
and reflects the skills of the therapist to musically meet the needs of the
client. This workshop will provide teaching and practice tools for the
participants that are intended to sustain the creativity of improvisation while
adding some clear structure and method to its clinical
application
M3 - Working paper
BT - Developing clinical piano improvisation skills
ER -