Creative music therapy : individualized treatment for the handicapped child / Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins.

Author/creator Nordoff, Paul
Other author Robbins, Clive.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : John Day Company, ©1977.
Descriptionxviii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 audiocassette (60 min. : 1 7/8 ips, mono.)
Subjects

SeriesJohn Day books in special education
John Day books in special education. ^A647310
Contents Preface -- Part one: Meeting the music child -- Part two: Three case studies. Edward ; Anna ; Logan -- Part three: Clinical techniques and procedures. Introduction ; Creating a musical-emotional environment ; Putting music to the movements of a musically inactive child ; Matching a child's outburst or crying ; On using physical forcefulness ; Leading into singing ; Pernilla and the children's tune ; Leading into instrumental activity ; Philip and a peekaboo-piano-playing game ; Working with the child's way of beating: leading into the basic beat ; Melvin, a hymnlike song and the tango ; Expressive musical mobility and communicative emotional experience in beating ; Rhythmic structure: perception, control, and forms of experience -- Part four: Evaluation. Introduction ; Scale I. Child-therapists relationship in musical activity ; Elements of interresponsiveness in music therapy relationship ; Scale II. Musical communicativeness -- Part five: Developing musical resources. "Precomposed songs" ; Exercises in improvisation (Introduction ; Scales: independence of the hands. Experience of bitonality ; Harmonic intervals: differentiation of their sounds and qualities ; Counter-rhythm with intervals ; Inverted triads: differentiation and flexibility ; Seventh chords: flexibility and dexterity ; Improvisational freedoms ; Melodic motifs, rhythmic patterns, phrase structure ; Melodies and harmonic intervals. Fluency in all scales ; Improvising on the basic beat ; Organum chord forms ; Pentatonic harmonization ; The whole-tone scales ; Exercises with a metronome ; Notes on pedaling) ; Singing (Speech and music ; Setting speech phrases ; Singing with improvisations) -- Suggested music for improvisation -- Glossary.
Local noteJOYNER -- MUSIC LIBRARY LACKS AUDIOCASSETTE.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 241-242) and index.
LCCN 75006898
ISBN0381971007 :

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