Person centred composition: a portfolio of compositions

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This portfolio of compositions explores the role of the person-centred composer when creating collaborative music in a variety of community and educational settings. Through a folio of discrete works representing specific solutions to individual contexts, this portfolio presents different views of what is necessary to provide a relational and person-centred approach to breaking barriers of participation, the importance of a congruent relationship between composer and participant and constructing a framework of core conditions for safety and flourishing in creativity, particularly within vulnerable groups. This approach is at the heart of each project, and accommodates the social, economic, environmental, and neurological challenges sometimes experienced when working collaboratively in diverse settings. The works include a community opera with 134 children, an opera written in collaboration with an artist in residence and musical ensemble, a radio play co-created with two groups of under-18s, and a project exploring music and synaesthesia with three community groups, musicians and international synaesthetic artists. Incorporating ideas from existing therapeutic and counselling models, notably Carl Rogers’ core condition of unconditional positive regard and drawing upon a field of practice within creative community arts, each work involved devising working methods which embrace heterogeneity as a central consideration.

This folio documents the transformative experience for participants engaging in professional productions for the first time or encountering a way of approaching music and interdisciplinary working new to them. The creation of these works explores and addresses the conundrum (and on a personal level the challenge) of process versus product, an issue that became especially salient in the post-Covid 19 landscape. In doing so, the folio provides potential models of practice to guide future endeavours in this field.

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Supervisors:	Daniel, March
Keywords:	music, community composition, person centred, relationships, Maslow, self actualisation
Awarding institution:	University of York
Academic Units:	The University of York > School of Arts and Creative Technologies (York)
Depositing User:	Mrs Helen Madden
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2025 16:59
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2025 16:59
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:36230

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