Improvisation: Methods and Techniques for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and Students
- Author: Wigram, Tony
The book's prose is clear and always user friendly. Wigram's approach is also profoundly practical, requiring the reader to work on the methods outlined, moving "backwards as well as forwards"...
Improvisation: Methods and Techniques for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and Students
- Author: Wigram, Tony
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The book's prose is clear and always user friendly. Wigram's approach is also profoundly practical, requiring the reader to work on the methods outlined, moving "backwards as well as forwards"...
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Improvisation plays a key role in the toolbox of the music therapist. Tony Wigram's practical and comprehensive guide and online content will prove indispensable to students, teachers, therapists and musicians as a book of musical techniques and therapeutic methods. Beginning with an overview of developing, teaching and analysing the skills of improvisation, Wigram describes techniques ranging from warming up to mirroring, rhythmic grounding, containing and holding. With specific sections on piano improvisation, chordal and 2-, 3- and 4- note improvisation are covered, in addition to advanced skills such as frameworking and transitions. Wigram also includes techniques for thematic improvisation, group improvisation and outlines methods for analysing and reporting improvisational processes. Notated examples allow readers to try out techniques and progress as they read, with audio examples on the accompanying online content adding another dimension to the structure and guidance provided for all levels of music student and therapist.
Contents
- Foreword, Professor Kenneth Bruscia.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Basic concepts in improvisation.
- 3. Musical techniques.
- 4. Basic therapeutic methods and skills.
- 5. Advanced musical and therapeutic techniques: Extemporising and frameworking.
- 6. Transitions: In improvisation and therapy.
- 7. Thematic Improvisation.
- 8. Group improvisation.
- 9. Two different methods for analysing improvised music.
- 10. Summary and Conclusion. Appendices. Glossary. Index.
Awards and reviews
British Journal of Music Education
The book's prose is clear and always user friendly. Wigram's approach is also profoundly practical, requiring the reader to work on the methods outlined, moving "backwards as well as forwards" so as to revise, integrate and develop them in ways specific to the needs of particular working contexts. The book is both accessible and profoundly practical. Moreover, whilst written for a music therapy audience, it warrants a much wider readership, including musicians that play in hospitals or in hospices who may not necessarily be formally qualified as music therapists
