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

The first three years the students are trained in three
areas of equal importance.
1. Music therapy performance, self experience and
didactics.
2. Musical skills - improvisational skills.
3. Academic skills - theoretical and research training.
These three areas are integrated particularly within the
compulsory report worked out in groups or individually
at the end of each semester. In the fourth year the
students leave the university for half a year of practice
at an institution, and the last semester is dedicated to
the master's thesis.
The musical framework around the Self experience
traininq Part.
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In order to explain the musical framework around the
Self experience training I want to present the different
ways in which the students are trained and in which they
cope with music as their tool. The diagram shows how
music is taught both as formalized knowledge, as skills,
as a symbolic product and in different improvisation
models. The diagrams shows also how music is taught
both as a product and as a tool for symbolic processes.
(See next page)
The improvisational models can overall be divided into:
1. Improvisation within specific musical styles - musical
"Gestalts".
2. Improvisation inspired by musical guidelines from the
students' experiences of a given task.
3. Improvisation expresing interrelational identity in