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- Title
THE CALL FOR BRAVERY: THE USE OF IMPROVISED STORY SONGS WITH A PRESCHOOLER WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS.
- Authors
McClure, Emily
- Abstract
This study is a phenomenological inquiry into a music therapy case study. In it, I examine how improvised story songs reflected the lived experience of a preschool-age child with developmental delays, exploring what these musical experiences indicated about the child s development and therapeutic process. The study was based on the participant s unique clinical experience with improvised story songs during music therapy, which ended six months prior to beginning the research. After reviewing archive video recordings of sessions, I selected three prominent improvised story songs for in-depth study. While examining these songs, I extracted themes from the improvised experiences, denoting the primary musical and narrative motifs eventually deriving at meaning units and the distilled essences. A synthesis of the data illuminates the ways improvised story songs reflected the child s lived experience, helping to draw conclusions about the impact of these songs on his developmental and therapeutic processes. Implications and considerations of the study and future research agendas are discussed
- Subjects
MUSIC therapy; PSYCHOTHERAPY &; music; MUSIC psychology; CHILD development; MUSIC physiology
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy, 2016, Vol 11, p1
- ISSN
1559-7326
- Publication type
Article