A Journey Into Creative Music Therapy

this compelling story of the author s life in music therapy is told with honesty compassion and insight and serves equally as a personal history and the history of creative music therapy the story begins in clive s childhood as he describes the role of music in his life in the family bakery in which he was raised we move through his adolescent years and his time in the british royal air force during world war ii and on to his life at sunfield children s home where his work with paul nordoff began the narrative details their early discoveries the inception of their creative approach their subsequent travels throughout europe and the establishment of their work in the philadelphia area the book continues with clive s teamwork with his wife carol in australia their groundbreaking work with the hearing impaired and their founding of the nordoff robbins center at new york university the book concludes with an examination of the worldwide dissemination of this work and its intertwined role in the global development of music therapy 2005 142 pages table of contents acknowledgements preamble music and musicing self and the world early assimilations influences and effects of music from childhood onward sunfield childrens homes anthroposophy and rudolf steiner laying the groundwork for creative music therapy the time the place and the people herbert geuter and paul nordoff arrive on the scene pif paf poltrie and the fusing of the team the beginnings of group music therapy the roles of composition creative empiricism the beginnings of individual music therapy finding my place in the healing heart of creative musicing the fact finding european scandinavian tour and learning more about curative education determining future directions founding creative music therapy in the united states important pilot projects under kansas skies the return to pennsylvania important new opportunities further advances completing the founding of creative music therapy toward the profession of music