View of Walking with Carolyn

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Briefly, Kenny’s field of play theory proposed that there are seven fields essential to music therapy3. The aesthetic: a field or environment containing the conditions of

There will always be a question if it possible to make a general theory of music therapy from an individual music therapy work based upon improvisation, as it is seems to be the

In Kenny’s model, “the music therapist provides the conditions for the establish- ment of a musical space…which is a contained, intimate, aesthetic, and sacred space in the

And then I was fortunate to spend time with Carolyn and many other wonderful mu- sic therapists from around the world when we attended the Symposium, “Music and the Life of Man,”

“Music therapy and music are relat- ed to tribal systems that use ritual at the core of their healing systems” (Kenny & Stige, 2008, para. For Carolyn, ritual in music therapy

My thoughts about Carolyn Kenny as a human being and as a scholar were best en- capsulated by a preface that I wrote for an anthology of her writings, Music and Life in the Field

In a recent book edited by Joseph Moreno, The Lives of Music Therapists, Carolyn describes how she developed a deep healing relationship to music as a young person, and how