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Wonderful insights! This is one of my favorite questions because I believe it encourages you to see the uniqueness you have as a music therapist and what you bring to early childhood work! Definitely take time to read through everyone’s responses and absorb your uniqueness and what you have to offer to children and families 🙂
May 2, 2020 at 11:08 am
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ModeratorWonderful insights! Movement is so important for children and especially so for those that have sensory neurodiversity. I’ve worked alongside OT’s for many years and found so many interesting movements that can add to our music experiences, including what you have mentioned! You can also think about adding animal walking (e.g. like a bear or crab-this gives heavy input into the proprioceptive system) or rolling or spinning like a log (this gives great input into the vestibular system.). My most interesting Sprouting Melodies classes are when our movement songs incorporate moving like our favorite animals and the adults jump in to join the kiddos in the movements!
May 2, 2020 at 11:04 am
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ModeratorWonderful insights! I love how you are incorporating the violin! I think the different timbres from different instruments have interesting effects and responses within music therapy and early childhood music work. I’ve often brought in my flute and recorder and there is a significant increase in musical engagement and responses.
May 2, 2020 at 11:02 am
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ModeratorHi Molly, it looks like you are finding ways to incorporate these experiences within the work you are already doing.
You may also find that pausing at times of harmonic tension will also provide a vocal response from the client without any specific gestural prompting. As you may know, harmonic tension typically wants to be resolved in the ear like V7 to I.(aka when we pause on the V7 the ear wants to hear that resolution to the I) There is some great research in music therapy on the tension bringing out speech from clients to get to the resolution of the chord. You can add exaggerations and playfulness which may engage the client in a playful experience of completing a phrase or section of the song. You could also pull the paddle drum behind you in play, like “hide and seek”, and bring it back out to play once the individual has filled in the phrase. Playfulness within the music, capitalizing on the natural movements, and tension/release within the music can have a deeper effect on engagement and musical response.May 2, 2020 at 10:51 am
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ModeratorHi Tony! I think you will find improvisation to flow nicely within the structured/pre-composed early childhood songs. I found that there were so many opportunities for all kinds of improvisations, for Beth’s songs, within my Sprouting Melodies classes. I also found it gave the parents lots of ideas on how they can use the music at home and improvise within them depending on what they are doing with their child.
May 2, 2020 at 10:48 am
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April 25, 2020 at 1:50 pm
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ModeratorThank you all for your insightful responses and to those who have commented on other’s responses!
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ModeratorI am so glad to hear that this material is helping you in your clinical work. Sounds like you are doing great work!
ModeratorI’m so glad you so many ideas were popping up for you! Sometimes sitting with the music, listening or creating really helps us to connect and inspire creative ideas!
ModeratorMusic really does help with routines and transitions. I’m so glad you are seeing this first hand with your nieces!
ModeratorHow wonderful to practice with a teddy bear until you get to work with families!
ModeratorHi Brittany, great to hear about your work and what you have used. Have you had an opportunity to use the songs from this week’s materials? Can you tell us a bit about your experience with it, or how you imagine it could be used within your work?
ModeratorJenny sounds like you are doing great work and using a culturally reflexive lens as you bring music to your clients. What a great opportunity to learn more about the music from the requests you are getting.
ModeratorAmy, it is wonderful that you survey your families. This is a great way to understand your clients and their connection to music!
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