Dissertation - World Federation of Music Therapy

Text and music with accompaniment written out in two staves. The scores of the
Stokowski arrangements were not available.)
8.3.2.2 Workshop62
11 GIM level three students, one trainer and two GIM therapists participated in a
workshop on Mein Jesu. The music was not identified until after they had listened to
it over loudspeakers in a small auditorium. Before listening participants had chosen
one of a set of tasks including
1) an image questionnaire, based on the experience of the music in a relaxed state (5
participants),
2) an image potential sheet, based on the experience of the music in an alert state (2)
3) a sheet for identification of salient musical features, as identified by auditory
analysis only (3)
4) a sheet for identification of salient musical features, as identified by both auditory
and visual analysis (including score of the original song, not the arrangement) (1),
5) a mood analysis, based on Hevner’s mood wheel (2),
6) a mandala drawing based on the music experience (1 participant).
8.3.2.3 Results of the workshop
All five participants in group one reported on a 5 step Likert that the music evoked or
stimulated imagery “very much” (maximum), and that the dominating image
modalities were visual and emotional. Emotions mentioned were: sorrow, loneliness,
anger, strength, thankfulness, caring, sadness, heaviness, hope and well-being. Three
participants reported comprehensive narratives. One narrative included a drowning
scene (Cinderella) and Snow White in her glass coffin. Another included saying
goodbye to parents who appeared as old persons in the imagery. A third narrative
included climbing a mountain and after this strenuous effort being taken care of with
food, wine and nurturing, interpreted by the imager as a birth-death-rebirth process.
62 This workshop was based on the same principles as the researcher workshop described in 8.3.1. I
wish to thank the participants of the GIM training workshop for their generous and valuable
contributions to this section. The workshop was part of a presentation of this project focusing on the
clinical dimension, and the Danish-Norwegian group have given their permission to include the data in
the study.
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