23.7. 1993 Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain - World Federation of Music Therapy

(single notes, intervals, melodic patterns)
- Timing and phrasing
- Rhythmic awareness and memory
(tempo, pulse, patterns)
- Timbre and orchestration
- Balancing sound in silence
Some examples of listening skills of the therapist
The innocent ear
(i.e. listening and wondering - not prejudging)
- Waiting (not interrupting silences)
- Attending to patient's not own concerns
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- Noticing tone o f vo ice ani breathing
- Reflecting, repeating
- Summarising
How are such skills identified here explored in the music
therapy syllabus at the Guildhall Schcool?
Firstly it seems important to emphasise that the idea of
the finely tuned and sensitive ear is primarily one of
attitude and philosophy. It is not something easily
packaged and handed over to students as a set of skills
to be straightforwardly mastered and used. In many
ways, at audition we are looking for potential trainees
who already have the ability to wait, to use silence, to
recognise intervals and harmonies, and who have a
sophisticated sense of timing and phrasing and so on.