Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

subcategories to core categories, as included in table 6.5: “Metaphorical fantasies:
complete narratives” became “Music-listening periods with complete narratives”;
“Music-listening periods dominated by body work: a. exploring the body, b. deep
relaxation” became “Music-listening periods dominated by bodily reactions”). I also
added one new category: “Verbal session”. The subcategory “Core metaphors” was
moved to “Additional subcategories”, because the emergence of one or more core
metaphors in a music-listening period transcends the category system, like cancer-
related imagery and transpersonal imagery. An emerging core metaphor would most
likely be indexed in one of the subcategories A1-7. Given these revisions, the result of
the analysis is the following core categories and subcategories:
Table 6. 5 Core categories describing complete music-listening periods
A. Music-listening periods with complete narratives
B. Music-listening periods composed of narrative sequences
C. Music-listening periods dominated by bodily reactions
D. No music-listening period: Verbal sessions
E. Music-listening periods with no or very little imagery (not including C. or
deep relaxation)
F. Mixed music-listening periods, composed of two ore more subcategories
The following table (6.6) describes the content of the core categories. However, these
are primarily descriptive and the material will always be (to some extent) a matter of
interpretation.
Table 6. 6 Descriptions of core categories
A. The imagery is metaphorical and configured through the whole music-listening
period. This results in a coherent narrative.
B. The imagery is metaphorical and/or exploratory, and it is configured in narrative
episodes. The music-listening period is composed of narrative episodes, however not
in a coherent narrative.
C. The imagery is sensory-kinaesthetic, and the music-listening period unfolds as
either an exploration of the body and its reactions to the music, or as deep relaxation
of the body.
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