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Proceedings, Oxford, UK (2002) - World Federation of Music Therapy

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Table 54 MTGI Listening Model<br />

Dynamic<br />

Group<br />

Leader<br />

Final<br />

Listening is directed by the pr<strong>of</strong>iles<br />

<strong>of</strong> Bruscia’s IAPs (1987) and<br />

numeric values are attributed to the<br />

scales considered relevant by the<br />

listener across all pr<strong>of</strong>iles.<br />

Listening is focused on the musical<br />

material <strong>of</strong> the group leader and<br />

notes music therapy techniques used<br />

(Bruscia, 1987) as well as musical<br />

interactions with other instrumental<br />

lines.<br />

A final listening that allows the focus<br />

to return to the ‘whole’<br />

improvisation and is directed by the<br />

material that has been heard in<br />

previous listenings.<br />

A narrative is generated by writing<br />

sentences about each <strong>of</strong> the scores<br />

within the relevant pr<strong>of</strong>iles using<br />

keywords from the IAPs.<br />

A narrative is written that<br />

describes the musical material <strong>of</strong><br />

the group leader and the empathic,<br />

eliciting, structuring, redirecting<br />

and procedural techniques used.<br />

A distilling process is used that<br />

explores the material elicited from<br />

the four narrative descriptions<br />

generated in the previous levels.<br />

The distillation involves:<br />

identifying key statements,<br />

reorganising the information into<br />

structural categories, exploring the<br />

structural categories to determine<br />

meaning categories, the removal <strong>of</strong><br />

replication and repetition and the<br />

creation <strong>of</strong> the final description.<br />

In critiquing the different levels <strong>of</strong> the model, it should be noted that very<br />

little material communicated in the narratives from the Open listening<br />

were included in the final description. Although this level assisted the<br />

researcher in achieving a state <strong>of</strong> controlled and focussed listening, these<br />

narratives were frequently subjective and even metaphorical in nature,<br />

leading to their exclusion. The <strong>Music</strong>al listening produced the purest<br />

narratives, however, it is important to note the difficulties experienced in<br />

bracketing out the intramusical implications <strong>of</strong> the music. Only the<br />

reassurance that this information would be addressed in the Dynamic<br />

listening made it possible for the researcher to ignore the interactive<br />

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