This tutorial from Professor Gary Ansdell explores the concept of listening deeply and broadly to the music within our music therapy sessions.
Rather than just applying a tool, Gary encourages us to listen very carefully to our clients and our own musical contributions. Starting with the principles of broad then deep listening Gary explains how musical indexing works and how we can use this method of transcribing sessions to provide deeper insight into our clients, ourselves, and interactions with others.
Providing examples of how indexing can be adopted Gary discusses the usual barriers to taking the time to transcribe sessions and shows how you can adopt differing levels of detail with this.
As with all learning Gary explains that we need to slow down to notice new details. After demonstrating the depth of detail using indexing for deep listening Gary then introduces broad listening, where we listen ‘around’ and ‘down’ the music. What is happening environmentally? What other interactions are occurring ‘around’ the music? Gary provides a video example of a music therapy session in which the music engages several clients in an interaction together.
To finish the tutorial Gary shares links to his publications to develop your skills further and the tutorial closes with 3 bonus content activities to extend your learning and earn extra CMTE/CPPD credits.
Prof Gary Ansdell has been a music therapist for thirty years, working mostly in the area of adult mental health in the last decade, and currently in later-life care settings. He has been involved in a wide range of areas of music therapy practice, and in developing the Community Music Therapy movement. Gary has also been active in training and research, developing new Masters and PhD programs for Nordoff Robbins, where he was Director of Education (2008-15). He has published widely in the areas of music therapy and music and health and is author/co-author of seven books on music therapy, the latest of which include How Music Helps: In Music Therapy & Everyday Life (2014) and with Tia DeNora Musical Pathways in Recovery: Community Music Therapy & Mental Wellbeing (2016). His long-term collaboration with the music sociologist Tia DeNora has led to their joint editorship of the book series Music and Change for Routledge Publishers and to their current involvement (with colleagues at Bergen University) on the project Care for Music: an ethnography of music in later life and end of life settings - a major grant award from the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council: https://careformusic.org
Gary is currently Professor at Grieg Academy of Music, Bergen; honorary Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Exeter University; Adjunct Professor at University of Limerick. He is an Associate of Nordoff Robbins, UK, where he is Convenor of the MPhil/PhD program.
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