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

T H E R E L A T I O N S H I P B E T W E E N E X C E R P T S O F
R E C O R D E D M U S I C A N D V A L U E S I N
R E C E P T I V E M U S I C T H E R A P Y W I T H
D E P R E S S I V E P A T I E N T S / L A R E L A C I Ó N
E N T R E F R A G M E N T O S D E L A M U S I C A
G R A B A D A Y L O S V A L O R E S D E L A
M U S I C O T E R A P I A R E C E P T I V A E N P A C I E N T E S
D E P R E S I V O S
HENK SMEIJSTERS, BABY WIJZENBEEK & NIEK VAN
NIEUWENHUIJZEN
While working with depressive patients, receptive music
therapy can be indicated. In one method of music
therapy it is stated that a specific piece of music evokes
a specific "value", which is a subject one considers to be
important in one's life. From this, the following research
questions were deduced; is there a permanent
connection between specific excerpts of music and
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specific values for depressive patients? If so, what are
the characteristics of the musical excerpts connected
with a specific value? Is there a certain hierarchy in
these characterics?
Participants in the research programme were
depressive patients of two psychiatric hospital in The
Hague, (The Netherlands). The research was divided
into a pre-test and a main test. In the pre-test, a list of 15
items referring to values and a questionnaire about
personal characteristics were developed by means of
statistical analysis. Besides, 16 musical excerpts of
different styles of music and emotion contents were
selected.
In the main test, depressive patients listened to several
musical excerpts and indicated the values which had a
personal meaning for them. By means of statistical
analysis, the research team searched for patterns of
values, clusters of musical excerpts and the connection
between the two