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| Author | Habron J., Butterly F., Gordon I., Roebuck A. | |
| Title | Being well, being musical: Music composition as a resource and occupation for older people | |
| Reference | Habron J., Butterly F., Gordon I., Roebuck A.; Being well, being musical: Music composition as a resource and occupation for older people ;British Journal of Occupational Therapy vol:76 issue: 7.0 page:308.0 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84883044725&doi=10.4276%2f030802213X13729279114933&partnerID=40&md5=3a28b97cbdbe22bda18b709a506a4969 |
| Abstract | Introduction: Participatory music making for older people has tended to focus on singing and performance. In a community music project undertaken by Manchester Camerata (a chamber orchestra), Blacon Community Trust and a small group of older adults, participants were given the opportunity to compose individual pieces of music interactively with professional musicians. This paper reports the findings of the research project. Method: An arts-based research method was adopted and incorporated action research and interpretive interactionism to articulate the experiences and perceptions of participants. Participants and Manchester Camerata musicians also worked together to represent the thematic findings of the research in a group composition. Findings: The findings demonstrate that individual and group music composition contributed to a sense of wellbeing through control over musical materials, opportunities for creativity and identity making, validation of life experience and social engagement with other participants and professional musicians. Conclusion: The results emphasised occupation as essential to health and wellbeing in the later stages of life. The findings also highlight the particularly innovative aspects of this research: (i) the use of music composition as a viable arts-in-health occupation for older people and (ii) the arts-based research method of group composition. |
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| The project facilitated community engagement and relationship building. . | The collaborative nature of community arts projects are of significance and may be positively linked to health and wellbeing. . | Key findings Creative music composition enhanced a sense of identity for a group of older people. . | For some, this process was emancipatory and showed the potential for using the creative arts in facilitating the reviewing of life challenges. . | Music as a vehicle for creativity for older people Individual and collaborative music composition highlights the opportunities for creativity in arts-based interventions. . | Development of personal resources Offering opportunities for creativity through music may be empowering, enabling people in later stages of life to begin to realise new and differing personal resources within accessible occupations, such as the creative expression through the arts. . | Composing music also developed participants sense of themselves as learners and contributors to a creative medium. . | Taking this metaphor further, one might say that participants used music both to explore the chapters of their lives that had already been experienced (written) and to consider the future the pages as yet blank, but with potential to be shaped in new ways that the musical composition could help them to articulate. . | The findings indicate that it not only enabled participants to engage in creative occupation beyond their everyday experience but also added significant meaning to their sense of identity, with effects that included a widening of participants occupational range and, for the duration of the project, a more robust self-belief. . | Findings: The findings demonstrate that individual and group music composition contributed to a sense of wellbeing through control over musical materials, opportunities for creativity and identity making, validation of life experience and social engagement with other participants and professional musicians. . | Findings: The findings demonstrate that individual and group music composition contributed to a sense of wellbeing through control over musical materials, opportunities for creativity and identity making, validation of life experience and social engagement with other participants and professional musicians. . | Music, emotion and identity The findings from this project suggest that the process of composing music (involving imagining, listening, critiquing, discussing and helping to rehearse and refine) evoked powerful emotions in the participants, for whom reflecting on life and re-establishing knowledge of identities helped to frame both their current and their idea of possible future identities. . | What the study has added Music composition, facilitated by appropriate staff, is a worthwhile addition to current arts-based occupations. . | The opportunity to compose music was empowering for participants and appears to have contributed to participants wellbeing and quality of life, at least in the short term. . | Participants also started to acknowledge their skill and to take more ownership of the compositional process as their apparent confidence in their skills increased. . |
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