ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 concerns definitions of music therapy. It includes perspectives such as from Aluede (2010), who refers to the presence in his country of centuries-old traditions of music in the restoration of health, and how in Nigeria there are different kinds of contexts for ‘the use of music . . . for healing purposes’. Priestley’s definition (1975) argues that there are three main activities in music therapy: making musical sound and expression on instruments or with the voice, listening to music with the therapist, and movement to music. The chapter explores how this broad range of activity is reflected in different definitions, from Nordoff Robbins, to developmental music therapy and psychodynamic music therapy (Edwards, 2016).
