{"title":"Introduction to Eckhard Weymann's Article","authors":"Eva Frank-Bleckwedel","doi":"10.1080/08098130009478001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009478001","url":null,"abstract":"Eckhard Weymann was one of my first academic teachers when I started studying music therapy in 1990. So it was many years ago that I first read his article Indications of the New. For various reasons it is useful for students reading their teacher's articles. For me, it was like walking through mountains. In the beginning they are quite distant, like a summery haze; but very soon they materialise: the art as an important and high mountain, oh, no! It is quite familiar: the writing process, studying pictures..., subjects I'm very interested in, sentences I willingly agree with, like wandering about in the hills with beautiful views, a bit irritated by small unfamiliar terms, hiding behind flowery bushes. Then an exciting yet wellknown landscape: the case and its music, I'm promenading at the border of a small river with clear water, flowing quickly through the valley. Suddenly, high rocks, hard ascent in theory, dangerous morphological term chasms. Do I have to continue or should I return? It depends on my actual constitution. I can start again and/or find my own landscape equipped with maps and descriptions. The article doesn't fix me, as well as it doesn't discourage me by describing overwhelming therapy success. It ends in \"Sensitive Suspense\" (Weymann, 2000). And this was one of the first and most important impressions of Eckhard Weymann as a teacher, supervisor and scientist: he is supportive and very open-minded, yet not without profile: he is a music therapist with morphological background which clearly can be seen in this article. For me he and others represented the change in German music therapy at that time: In the beginning of the nineties, the wars and battles between different schools and theoretical backgrounds ended. Music therapists began to talk, to discuss, to debate. The time of building fortresses came to an end, and for my generation of music therapists, the common position is interest, curiosity and willingness to learn from each other. This was in general our teacher's attitude, and this open-mindness also included other arts and sciences; and so in this article you can find for example, quotes and ideas from painters, philosophers, psychoanalysts etc.","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132915774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Restitutional Factors In Group Music Therapy With Psychiatric Patients Based On a Modification of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM)","authors":"T. Moe, A. Roesen, H. Raben","doi":"10.1080/08098130009478000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009478000","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on a qualitative music psychotherapy research project at Set. Hans Hospital in Denmark. Nine patients participated in a group music therapy setting over six months. The article describes the effect of music therapy on the patients' level of functioning and the patients' own evaluation of the music therapy. Data sources included the GAF (DSM axis 5), a self-administered questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. The music therapy model used is a receptive approach using music and imagery inspired by GIM. The model used is based on patients' imagery during selected, primarily classical, music specially designed for an inpatient setting. Results: The GAF investigation showed a positive effect of 7.2% in a meridian score, and the interview and questionnaires pointed out which parts of the therapy the patients found most supportive. The study indicates that the music therapy group was a good support for the patients, and the identified results suggest the need for investigations and empirical studies within this area. The patients benefited from the structured form, and they found the music part of the therapy helpful, both emotionally and structurally. It can be concluded that even if the study includes only a small number of participants, the music therapy method described here as modified GIM, may be a suitable treatment for schizotypical and schizophrenic patients in long-term therapy, with careful selection of musical pieces. The patients' own comments about the music therapy group show that eight out of nine patients were satisfied with the therapy and felt themselves supported. This was also evident in a decidedly stable attendance of 98 %.","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131409794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indications of the New -","authors":"E. Weymann","doi":"10.1080/08098130009478002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009478002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121122516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Biological Perspective on Musical Appreciation","authors":"B. Grinde","doi":"10.1080/08098130009477997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009477997","url":null,"abstract":"Music has a powerful effect on the human psyche, an effect that can be used for therapeutic purposes. As the capacity to respond to and enjoy music appears to be innate, it is relevant to look for an evolutionary explanation. I suggest that a preoccupation with certain types of sounds has been adaptive, and that the main evolutionary advantage is related to play and exploratory behaviour associated with our dependence on language. The human brain employs agreeable and punitive sensations in order to influence behaviour. I propose that the brain induces us to concentrate on sounds, by offering pleasant sensations, in order to improve our ability to hear and to vocalise, and that one reason why we appreciate music is because it has the particular qualities required for maximum exploitation of these sensations. Keywords: musical appreciation - evolutionary perspective – language - positive sensations.","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132166902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music Therapy — History and Cultural Contexts","authors":"E. Ruud","doi":"10.1080/08098130009478003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009478003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131702892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biology, Culture, and Music Therapy","authors":"Brynjulf Stige","doi":"10.1080/08098130009477995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009477995","url":null,"abstract":"In \" The Dance of Wellbeing\" the first article in this issue Colwyn Trevarthen and Stephen N. Malloch aims at \"Defining the Musical Therapeutic Effect.\" Trevarthen has published extensively on neuropsychology. brain development and communication in infancy, and his texts are frequently quoted among European music therapists. In the article he and Malloch have written for this journal, theories of mother-infant interaction and of communicative musicality are seen in relationship to music therapy and offered as a foundation for a theory of music therapy. They suggest that the practice of music therapy while professional and based upon theoretical knowledge and musical skills is also based on an innate \"intuitive musicality\". This may explain why so often there is an intuitive appreciation lay and professional of how music therapy improves the emotional and cognitive well-being of clients. Trevarthen and Malloch propose that this intuitive appreciation can be enriched by accurate information on the dimensions of musicality in emotional expression and communication, and that research on the acoustic features of vocal interactions with infants has brought out fundamental features. They therefore advocate comparable analysis of clinical practice to clarify how motives and feelings are engaged and transformed through treatment. Bjørn Grinde in his article in this issue offers an evolutionary perspective on the biological basis for musical appreciation. Bjorn Merkerin one of the two comments on this article characterizes Grinde's proposal as the \"language auxiliary\" theory of the origins of music. In Merker's words Grinde suggests that music originated as a \"teaching device\" for language, \"by providing the motivational (hedonic) underpinnings for a propensity to focus on and interpret complex sounds, a propensity needed for the primary function of language acquisition\". While Merker warmly welcomes Grinde's contribution, he also questions several of Grinde's suggestions, as does Erik Christensen, who has written the other comment to this article. The topic will be under continuing debate on our web Forum. I take these differences, and the fact that an article on the biology of music was submitted to this journal, as a sign of a new inter-disciplinary trend. There is a renewed interest for what evolutionary perspectives can offer to the understanding of applied disciplines within health and education. The interest is starting to include music and music therapy, although this is still in an early stage of development. Another sign of this inter-disciplinary trend is the recent book The Origins of Music edited by a musicologist and two neuroscientists (Nils Wallin, Bjorn Merker & Steven Brown). This book is possibly of great importance for our field, and will be thoroughly reviewed in the next issue of our journal. Seemingly in contrast to these discussions on music biology and the origins of music, this issue also presents an essay review by Even Ruud of t","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129674957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Theory of Music Origins: the Language Auxiliary Hypothesis","authors":"B. Merker","doi":"10.1080/08098130009477998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009477998","url":null,"abstract":"(2000). A New Theory of Music Origins: the Language Auxiliary Hypothesis. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 28-31.","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128745780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dance of Wellbeing: Defining the Musical Therapeutic Effect","authors":"C. Trevarthen, S. Malloch","doi":"10.1080/08098130009477996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009477996","url":null,"abstract":"Music making is a human activity that communicates motives – the underlying impulses for action, by which experience is gained, and which are accompanied by feelings. Music evokes narratives of experience, based on our innate ability to share the passing of expressive ‘mind time’, an ability that may be called ‘musicality’. which is inseparable from the impulse to move with anticipation of rhythmic sensory consequences and varied emotional evaluations. Communicative musicality is the source of the music therapeutic experience and its effects. An inborn musicality is clearly uncovered in acoustic analyses of parent/infant vocal interactions, where, independent of verbal communication, a shared sense of time and the shaping of jointly-created pitch contours describe phrases and narrative cycles of feeling. There is new evidence that the communication of motives and experience is supported by systems of ‘sympathy neurones’ in the regulatory core of the brain, and by the ‘vitality affects’ they generate. The music therapy relationship seeks a dance of human passion and well-being by fundamentally intuitive means. Its verbal/cognitive regulation is necessary for the cultivation and recording of its technique, but not the origin of its immediate power 1. Keywords: musicality - therapy - infants - movement - emotion - timing - communication","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127750931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Book Review of Wigram and De Backer's Clinical Application of Music Therapy in Developmental Disability, Paediatrics and Neurology","authors":"M. Pavlicevic","doi":"10.1080/08098130009478007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08098130009478007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101579,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musikkterapi","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127469522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}