Melody in Music Therapy: A Therapeutic Narrative Analysis
Aldridge, David / Aldridge, Gudrun
Despite the lack of theories of melody historically, melody is the component of music most evocative of memories and therefore, identity. The Aldridges (Gudrun is a music therapist, David is co- director, Nordoff Robbins Center in Witten, Germany/professor, creative arts therapies, U. of Bradford, UK) thus introduce their method of therapeutic narrative analysis of patients' construction of melodies that encompasses the phases of search, orien...