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Application of Music Therapy in High School

The purpose of this research is to examine the definition and application of music therapy to the high school instructional and counseling setting. The plan of the research will be to set forth an appropriate definition and context in which the practice of music therapy can be identified, to discuss a definition of counseling as applied to the practice of music therapy, and to describe the uses of music therapy in a secondary school setting, particularly in high school. As appropriate, reference will be made to research studies of music therapy that appear to have relevance to the high school setting.

For the reason that the term music therapy combines two simple words in a way that implies their connection to the whole range of psychology subdisciplines, it would appear that a definition of the practice would be simple to arrive at. However, the field has proven itself to be a complex one, not least for the reason that many applications have been found to have relevance in both psychotherapeutic and instructional activities. Waller (1992) describes the relevance for creative-arts-based therapies in general as a synthesis of psychoanalysis and art education. Modes of therapeutic practice vary widely, and definitions of music itself, whether inside or outside the therapeutic arena, are so varied as to complicate the definitional enterprise for the music-therapy discipline.

Accordingly, it will be useful to explore various angles from which definitions have been proposed. Levi's description (1978) of music education is instructive in this regard. He finds two factors looming large in the music-education environment. First is the general concept of expressive quality, which is to say the emotional expression, attached to the perceptions of musician or auditor. A related and more subtle second factor is that expressive quality is a function of the "percept," or musical composition itself, which is to say-the (often famili...

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