ABSTRACT
Music therapists are generally required to be able to analyse their music as part of their training. In the workplace their music takes place within a therapeutic relationship. As such, their analysis tends to focus on those aspects of the musical interaction that will inform both their own clinical judgement and that of colleagues who are not trained to interpret musical phenomena. These aspects typically comprise a patient’s interaction, communication and self-expression, as indicated by the way a patient plays a musical instrument, or musical parameters such as dynamics and articulation.
