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

freeexpression.
c) Research on the personal characteristics in playing
freely a musical instrument: piano or "Tone Educator"==
"Resonator Bells".(in England).
MUSICAL PREFERENCES OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN :
Conclussions:~) The most important were that
I.- Autistic children react tremendously to musical
stimulus, similar to psychotic children and much more
than the other patient
II.- Autistic children posses a sort of unborn sense of
beauty who makes them to select the most beautiful,
inspired, emotive and even, the most well performed (in
the sense to generate emotion and sweetness).
III.- When the musical composition it is inadequate to
his hypersensitiveness, his reaction is:
a) For the more affected autistic children:
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inhibitio n They seems to not hear anything.
b) For the less affected: Agressivity toward
themselves, increasing of compulsive mannerisms...
IV.- A sedative music, not depressive, stir the most
passive patients to action, physical, intelectual or social.
V.- They do not accept predominantly rhytmic music
becouse the rhytm us all mechanical form of expression
tend to increase his basical ANXIETY. The severe
autistic children react incre sing his compulsive
mannerisms and the less affected,isolating more.
VI.- The type of Music prefered by them seems to be:
a) Short compossitions, the leiv-motif of the
inspired composit ions, the most emotives and
delicates, classical or folk, performed with a maximum
of modulation and expressivity.
b) Musical instruments preferred: organ, arp,
guitarre, piano, String Orquestras or folf string