Being a music therapist requires one to have a certain set of skills in order to be successful. The University of Kansas’s program emphasizes clinical musicianship as well as intrapersonal, interpersonal, and therapeutic skills. As a freshman student in the music therapy program I have not developed the clinical aspect of musicianship and therapeutic skills yet. However, based on past experiences I am able to identify my strengths and challenges of my musicianship, intrapersonal, and interpersonal skills. As a musician, I value the importance of improvement and continuing education. One of my strengths is that I am never completely satisfied with my musical abilities and knowledge and am always improving. This mindset also coincides with humility. …show more content…
I believe myself to be a judgmental person in that I tend to form opinions of others before I get to know them. However, I strongly believe in treating everyone the same regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. If I have a negative opinion about another person, I will interact with them with an open mind. When I first meet them I, in a way, want them to surprise me and prove my judgment wrong. Where this negative quality truly has consequences is in situations of meeting new people. If I believe a person to be have certain personality that I would dislike, then I may avoid interacting with them unless that approach me first. I recognize that putting myself in that position prevents me from getting to know someone and causes me to miss out on many social opportunities. On too many occasions I have made a judgment about a person and was completely wrong. The first time I met my current best friend, I honestly did not like her for no reason. It took me a couple weeks of getting to know her and realizing we had so much in common. I was lucky that band camp caused us to always be around each other because I may not have ever talked to her. From that experience, I realized that I should take initiative and actively meet others. There are so many social opportunities around us that we take for granted on a daily basis. I could start by getting to know people in my own classes more. Instead of staring at my phone, I could use the time before class to improve my social skills and build
This essay will explore the perspectives of music therapists including Julie Sutton and Gary Ansdell and research of Psychologists Paul Gilbert, Nigel Hunt and Sue Mchale.
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Jubilee Music Enrichment has taught me to be confident and to believe in myself even though things may be hard. Instead of saying “I CAN”T,” I say “I CAN.”
Once this is accomplished, students gain personal pride in achieving this new skill. Music programs offer lots of chances for students to develop new talents, whether that is playing an instrument or singing a song. “Music programs in public schools help to foster a student’s sense of pride and self-confidence” (Hoffman 1), and with this newfound pride, students will develop more experience in other areas, like working with others and communicating with different people. Music plays an active role in student’s lives, and as core subject grades begin to rise, “music education remains a key component in a student’s academic success and in positive social and emotional growth” (Hoffman 1). Music forms dignity in a students abilities, offering to give the students a chance to develop their communication and social skills in a safe environment, and give themselves positive feelings about their accomplishments. Without music programs in schools, students will have less pride in their abilities and will not let them gain that safe environment to achieve these experiences with
...thers is our love and drive for music, with a vision that goes beyond the average persons thoughts on music. As a progressing music educator, A cheesy phrase that a lot of us use is “ music has to choose you you can’t choose music” and I believe it is true there are a lot of people that try to make music before them but it does not work unless they have the drive and will to practice for hours at a time just to get a 4 min pieces up to where it may be performance ready or to be the person that will sit with a child sounding like a dying duck just to help them succeed at something they want to do because you know in the long run even though sitting there is hard to do the student will someday be a musician and may be the one to change music forever. I can now see myself becoming more and more like my community and appreciating my surroundings and people even more.
Music therapy can be combined with occupational to increase the benefits of the special education services. A significant challenge people on the autism spectrum face is effectively communicating their thoughts, desires, and emotions in a socially acceptable way. Using improvisation in music therapy can help students on the spectrum express what they are feeling. Learning to use musical elements such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, and form, can help this population demonstrate musically what they need to communicate. For example, if they are feeling sad, they might improvise with a slow tempo. If they are angry, their improvisation might be loud and fast.
Music therapy works because of its three fundamentals: the application of systematic thinking through music theory, the creation of an individualized treatment plan, as well as the patie...
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In summary, it is very reasonable to determine that music therapy has been a pronounced development. It has aided an abundance of people with dealing with all sorts of different issues they are faced with in everyday life; from emotional issues to illnesses. However, music therapy is not for everyone. There are many different types of therapies available for patients to choose from if they feel if music therapy isn’t for
The quote “The wise musicians are those who play what they can master”~ Duke Ellington, reminds me of the life Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived as he grew to become one of the most remembered classical composers in all of history. Making his passion for music carry him through life, beginning from when he was a young boy till his last breath. In many stages of his life Mozart had success and fallouts, but one thing always remained in his life as a musician and that was music, which he used to be drawn to mastery of his own advances.
Meadows, A. N. (2011). Developments in music therapy practice case study perspectives. Gilsum: Barcelona Publishers.
The field of music education is one with which I have become rapidly familiar. This statement is not to be confused with me claiming that I have an intimate knowledge of the subject matter. In my student teaching semester, I found myself immersed in a great number of ideologies toward the profession, many of which were in conflict. In regard to music education, my greatest quandary at this juncture of my career is choosing from the myriad of philosophies which relate to the field. In relation to the information I have gathered from those in the profession at the public school level, I have a disproportionately large amount of information from professionals who teach at the collegiate level and theorists who benefit music education by performing studies. If I were to perform research about the field of music education, my goal would be to gather information from these three sets of professionals which would bring my knowledge base about each to an equitable level.
We meet strangers everywhere we go. They come from all walks of life. We can choose to ignore them or to talk to them. I have judged people based on the way they walk, talk, dress or the way they approached me. These judgments tend to stick with me even if I find out who they really are. I don 't think it is right to get judgmental when I first approach a person. I feel so bad when I find out who they really are isn 't who I thought they were. It just seems to happen so naturally. I guess it is just human nature. I can relate this to my senior high school days. Most of the judgments I made about people never helped me because it got me into bad company. In a short story ‘Strangers’, a stranger hurt and lied to Toni Morrison about who she was. She was really hurt by the stranger because she had misjudged her about who she was. She did not expect a woman, who looked so humble, would do such a thing. I can relate to her story because I also misjudged someone and ended up getting hurt.
In order to understand why the use of music therapy is growing, one must know what exactly music therapy is. Music Therapy is an established health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals. Music therapy also provides avenues for communicati...
Music Therapy is the prescribed use of music and musical interventions to restore, maintain, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual health and well-being. These are the key elements which define interventions as music therapy. Music Therapy is goal oriented and provides a system to work towards a specific therapeutic goal and objective. Goals identified can include communicative, academic, motor emotional and social skills. In the end the music development learned in the sessions hopefully have a relaxing, positive effect on the client’s physical, psychological and socio-economical functioning. Music Therapy became a profession in 1950 with the establishment of the National Association for Music Therapy and the American Association for Music Therapy Association. (AMTA) There were nonmusical goals set for the professional setting. “They included: improving communication skills, decreasing inappropriate ...