Music at the Edge

This unusual and very moving book offers anyone who is working with, or facing, illness and death an opportunity to understand how the transcendent power of music can enable expression of painful feelings more accurately than words.

Colin Andrew Lee, PhD, MTA, is Professor of Music Therapy at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His writings and research culminated in the music-centered theory of Aesthetic Music Therapy.

1 BACKGROUND 2 IMPROVISATION IN CONTEXT 3 CREATIVITY AND CHAOS - ASSESSMENT AND SESSIONS ONE TO FIVE 4 WRITTEN ON THE WIND - SESSIONS SIX TO TEN 5 THIS WAS A PERSON, THIS WAS A FLAME - INTERLUDE   6 EVERYTHING FADES - SESSIONS ELEVEN TO EIGHTEEN   7 SEARCHING FOR THE LIGHT - SESSIONS NINETEEN TO TWENTY-SIX 8 AND STILL THROUGH THE PAIN I SAW THE RAIN - SESSIONS  9  EXPRESSING THE DREAM FLOW - SESSIONS THIRTY TO THIRTY-THREE 10 AFTER THERAPY  11 AFTERWORD