"My music is me": Musical Presentation as a way of forming and sharing identity in music therapy group

Musical Presentation is a therapeutic tool for the purpose of increasing clients' and students' knowledge of self and others via presenting their music. It is a collection of various musical compositions that are chosen by the client/student according to their importance and meaning in their lives, to be played in a music therapy group and receive feedback from their peers. By choosing and recording specific musical pieces on a CD in a specific order the client/student creates a personal and meaningful musical collage, which enables her ¹ to create and share her personal andmusical identity. The MP's various types and stages are being described and discussed. Two possible ways of analyzing the MP as a basis for understanding the presenter's intra- and interpersonal worlds are introduced: phenomenological analysis and Johari Window. An example of the Musical Presentation of Daniella, a music therapy student, accompanies the article in order to illustrate the use of this tool.