ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the core content of a completed piece of doctoral research which was concerned with the musical and therapeutic processes involved in therapeutic improvisation. It focuses on the results of the research rather than the complex components of the analyses themselves. The chapter also discusses the research both academically and personally, highlighting the merits and problems of such an analytical procedure. The client was asked to return to the university in order to listen to the chosen improvisation. Evaluation of the processes of therapeutic improvisation for people living with HIV and AIDS in terms of musical content and therapeutic outcome can be addressed at various levels. The audio and notational transcriptions of the some improvisations provided an overall view of the complete musical executions. Bar-lines and key signatures were added to the score from the audio recording. They should be regarded as the researcher’s subjective representational guidelines, and thus have been added in brackets and dotted lines.
