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

one of primary creativity (Winnicott's transitional area).
The music therapy setting is meant as a space of "free
game" based on repetition, resonance, imitation,
variation, opposition, projection, holding, starting from
the client's evolutive level.
In popular music repetition becomes an element used
to formulates idea, to let them be shared, to create a
stability; it is a starting point for variation and invention
produced by instruments, body and voice.
This last one really unites sounds with basic emotions;
thus, expressing an even sensorial strong tension,
especially when singing is a closed throat singing.
We will give just two examples of popular music
production as reference points.
First example:
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Lullabies are the prototypes of man's existence, of his
desires, frustrations, fears, shadow which come to be
exorcized through a repetitive ritual. Such a "ritual" is
developed through generally brief intervals and
acquires the value of a magic potion, with its sound
games, fragments of words, rhymes and
onomatopoeia. The binary time gives the idea of reality,
the
link with the mother earth; the mainly minor tone gives
the idea of anguish, the melancholy of life. (Piece n.l
"Lullaby", Pisticci-Matera feminine voices).(S.5)
Moreover, lullabies show a series of contradiction:
- on the one hand their function is to calm down the
child, on the other hand, their contents refer to death
and other frightening signs;
- apparently singing is useful for the baby though its
deepest function is to let the mother release her