History and Heritage

Autor/innen

  • Brynjulf Stige

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v1i2.59

Abstract

We come to music therapy with musical expectations. Clients do. Therapists do. We come to music therapy with expectations colored by our personal history of music, which is - of course - embedded in culture. I came to music therapy more than 20 years ago with quite mixed expectations: preferring music with a rough edge, strong rhythms, and bold discords, but also longing for - though maybe not so consciously - the soft sound of romantic songs. The first sound of music therapy I ever heard was Paul Nordoff's improvisations. He died the year I "discovered" music therapy and I never heard his live playing, but recordings of the clinical work he did together with Clive Robbins were presented to me by the Norwegian pioneers of music therapy, and I was immediately fascinated by the rough and romantic sound of his music.

Veröffentlicht

2001-07-01

Zitationsvorschlag

Stige, B. (2001). History and Heritage. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v1i2.59

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