ABSTRACT
Compared with the visual arts, the product in music and music-making is much more ephemeral. In music, ideas can grow and be developed in solitude, with one other person, or in a group. In music as in art, a distinction has been raised between education and therapy. As with the distinction between art education and art therapy, there may lurk behind the distinction between music education and music therapy other differences such as that between a behaviourist and a humanist approach. But again the complementary links may warrant more attention than the differences. In music, the frame is sound as filtered through selected regions of the body: the ear, voice, hand, feet, skin, muscles, endocrines. The rhythmic structures of music, then with their accompanying driving, energising and ordering forces often provide a welcome base for the withdrawn child’s journey of return.
