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april 12th, 2008 newsletter: PHOTOS FROM THE MAR/AMTA MUSIC CONFERENCE

Joseph Piccinnini, MA, CMT, LCAT at the Richmond Music Center Booth.

"The Cherry Hill Cherry Pickers" Playing music at the conference:

• Ken Aigen
• Alan Turry
• Paul nolan
• Joe Piccinnini
• plus Mike Viega, VJ & Friends
  
  

Group gathers to participate in music making & dancing

Breathing Music presentation
The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine at Beth Isreal medical center hosted a "Symposium on Music, the Breath and Health: Advances in Integrative Music Therapy." Joseph Piccinnini, MA, CMT, LCAT, Dr. Clive Robbins, and Kaoru Robbins presented "Breathing Music" in two parts:

Part one focused on a vocal approach to working with the breathing of comatose patients. A music therapist works with a comatose patient in the ICU of a hospital in the Ruhr District of Germany. Her client is weak; his deteriorating condition rated at level 3 of the Glasgow Coma Scale. She chooses the quiet calm approach, singing acappella to him and basing her singing on the melody of a German hymn. She continuously observes the rhythm of his breathing and fits her singing to it. She notices thet within three sessions he is turning his head toward her, and the subtle changes in the timing of his inhalations & exhalations indicate the influence of the melodic phrase structure of her singing. Progressively, his responses increase; he opens his eyes, smiles, and moves his arms. Her work brings reassurance and comfort to his family. After 11 sessions he emerges from the coma. In subsequent counseling with the hospital psychologist he reveals the quasi-psychotic nature of his hallucinations while comatose and describes the life-transforming motivational efects the therapist's singing had upon him.

Part two covered the origination of Reed Horns as simple blowing instruments (especially manufactured for use in the Toy Symphony, traditionally attributed to Joseph Haydn) and how they were used and adapted in practical work with variously disabled and disadvantaged children by Nordoff & Robbins. Their many beneficial effects:
-The directness with which clear strong tones are produced with the breath stimulates children and increases their motivation to vocalize.
-Playing reed horns promotes vocal self-confidence
-Playing horns requires no eye-hand coordination - a useful attribute in music therapy with learning and/or physically disabled clients.
-The capacity of the horn to provide opportunitites for sustaining tones at will, and to play in different dynamics, brings opportunitites to work on developing breath control.
-The timbre of the horns' tone provides a pleasing contrast to the other instrumentents, so enhancing the individual & cumulative effects of group instrumental activitites
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The presentation included showing the effectiveness of reed horns with hearing impaired children, particularly in stimulating the awakening and application of residual hearing. The use of horns with various adult clients was also illustrated.

Please contact me for further information.

Joseph Piccinnini, MA,CMT, LCAT