Discusses the results of research in which children with no preparatory musical training were asked to improvise short pieces of music to be interpreted as "self-descriptions." Views these improvisations as expressions of the self by assuming that they contain "metaphors" that in many respects are self-reflexive. (DSK)

Questions how musical events educate, examining the debate between emotional and cognitive responses. Compiles arguments from musicoaesthetic and musicotherapeutic discourses. Identifies limitations in each line of reasoning as it explores how the musical experience is located in the self. Suggests a relationship between voice and mood. Offers…