Diploma in Music Therapy and Lyric Analysis (8 hrs lectures)
What you'll learn
- How music in general, impacts the brain
- The emotions generated - or amplified - by Country Music
- How Country Music aids learning
- How Country Music aids a business
- Some analysis of lyrics
- The work of one of the UK's foremost singer
- How some musicians also produce art
Requirements
- Please watch the Preview lectures first!
Description
PART 1
This first part is divided into fourteen sections as follows:
1. Introduction and phonemes (These phonemes are explained with an example)
2. Music and depression (Reference is made to lyrics)
3. Mental health and Country Music (Poems and lyrics included)
4. Country Music and Gratitude
5. Country Music and Depression
6. What leaders can learn from Country Music
7. Benefits of music (Your participation is encouraged!)
8. How Country Music affects learning (Again, your participation.)
9. Paintings (Included with special permission - these do NOT feature elsewhere on the Internet)
10. Lyrics
11. The Homework Section (Asking for your feedback on various statements made and thoughts expressed.)
12. Finishing off
13. I still cry
14. P.P.S.
Throughout the course students are urged to read/listen/think and then respond in the Q/A. Plenty of clips. Plenty of questions. Plenty of comments welcome.
There is material included here - paintings, poems, lyrics, recordings - that cannot be found anywhere else on the internet - otherwise you could just go to Youtube!
Enrol ..and ENJOY this course - and you may learn quite a lot on the way!
Note: Owing to copyright, only CLIPS of world famous musicians are included - you are always urged to go and visit the original film.
Artists such as:
Tim McGraw
Vince Gill
Andy Simpson
Johnny Cash
Kris Kristofferson
Hank Williams
Garth Brooks
Luke Combs
Maren Morris
Brett Eldredge
Van Zandt
Alan Jackson
Buck Owens
Denny Strickland
Mary Gauthier
George Jones
Randy Travis
Hank Cochran
Ilse DeLange
Also when dealing with Country Music and Depression we include consideration of some studies, risk factors and the existence of someone called 'Sam'.
PART TWO
Music Therapy - in depth
Lyric alteration
Listening and discussing
Improvisation
Guided Imagery
Group Performance
Country Music Lyric Collage
Country Music Chair Dance
Country Music Karaoke
Active Performance
Memory Recall
Lyrics
Attention and focus
Songwriting
Who this course is for:
- All fans of Country Music
- Those interested in the impact of music on emotions
- Anyone looking at the poetry side of Country Music
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,231 Reviews
- 251,474 Students
- 143 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 5,426 Reviews
- 143,635 Students
- 85 Courses
Almost Random Theatre is a theatre company started in 2012. After putting on plays at Oxford and Brighton fringes, taking actors to Poland and Czech Republic, selling plays to schools, putting on many short plays in Oxford, visiting 60+ schools and running 'drama days' it was decided to...slow down.
The theatre's main contribution now is helping with numerous Art Therapy courses.