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

us to discover the "universal correlation" of world and
consciousness of the world, "it leads us to recognisisng
through self-reflection, that the world which is for us,
which in its sense and in its being thus is our world,
derives its sense of being exclusively from our
intentional life" 30 . Leading the discourse on the music,
the phenomenological passage is that which through
the suspension of the world of sound already
constituted leads to the unveiling of a world of precatesory
music, intentional correlative of a "purified"
subjectivity. Recovering music phenomenologically
means therefore reaching the intuitive evidence of that
which is given first of all, the intuition of music of
"phenomenon". This musical "first" represents an
original world of music, an "Ur-Grund" source of the
sense of every possible conceptual structuralization of
30 E. Husserl, Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und
phänomenoloqischen Philosophie; trad. it., Torino, 1981, p.207.
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the world of sound.
What is thus revealed is an order which precedes every
category "arrangement". This original order is not to be
understood as a metaphysical staticity, but as a living
order that accomplishes itself in the experience of man
starting from corporeal intelligence. In ontopsycological
music therapy musis is in fact phenomenologically
learned "from the indide". The music therapist does not
appeal, that is, to an outside, to an "external" music, but,
evading rational formalizations, makes music, plays a
rythym which are direct projections of his organismic
order 31 . "We are not dealing - states Meneghetti - with
the musicality which the music therapist has as musical
culture, as memorized rythym, as stereotypes drawn
from the best dance music that exists, but it does
31 In Ontopsychology whit the term "organismic" what is intended is "the
synchronis between soul and body, perceived as a unitary coming into
consciousness". "The organismic is unity of consciousness in the