Music as Therapy: Towards an Integrated Experience

1 March 1985

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Music Education

Vol. 2 (2) , 153-158
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0265051700004757

Abstract

An integrated musical experience is an elusive event whose occurrence is acknowledged – consciously or unconsciously – by all human beings. It comprises numerous interactive factors, any of which can impede or facilitate the move towards musical integration.The implications exist that all human beings are inherently music-beings, that music is inherently therapeutic and that musical and self-integration are reciprocal. Thus changes in either will be reflected in the other, and when used in a specifically therapeutic way, music will promote self-integration. Acknowledging these implications broadens and enriches the concepts of healing, of teaching, and of music making, so that all who participate in these events can potentially be profoundly moved towards a more integrated creative experience.

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The Tradition of Western Music
Published by University of California Press ,1974