Creative Music Therapy: A Guide to Fostering Clinical Musicianship

by Paul Nordoff, David Marcus, Clive Robbins

Book and 4 CD's. A long-awaited, contemporary revision and expansion of the classic 1977 text by Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins that laid the foundations for the widening development of their pioneering improvisational practice of music therapy. It is a large format book of nineteen chapters and over 500 pages yet it is a book to be listened to as much as read. The core of the book s content is to be gained through the ear. The original edition the first music therapy text to make audio recordings of therapy sessions publicly available contained one hour of recordings. The revised edition includes almost five hours of clinical work on four CDs. The 160 annotated excerpts taken from courses of improvisational music therapy with twenty-four variously disabled children present a kaleidoscopic range of creative musical-clinical phenomena.

516 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2007