The Co-Construction of an Elegant Ending-Polyphonic Musical Intervention in Palliative Care: A Case Study.

Behav Sci (Basel)

Art Research Education, Hospice Palliative Care Unit, Rizza Hospital, ASP 8 (National Health Service), 96100 Siracusa, Italy.

Published: October 2022

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  • The creative processes we engage in reveal our struggle to embrace and appreciate diversity due to weaknesses in our multicultural systems.
  • The concept of polyphony is often used metaphorically in discussions about collective experiences, but it needs practical application, particularly in music and community settings.
  • Palliative care serves as a vital environment to understand individual grief and interpretations of loss, transforming this experience into a therapeutic and educational journey that honors both life and the inevitability of death.

Article Abstract

The complexity of creative processes, within which human nature pines and finds itself, reflects a state of relational emergency. The weak structure of our multicultural system gives us a series of behavioral flaws, denouncing our inability to welcome diversity and treasure it. In the search for the way out, using the metaphor of polyphony is increasingly frequent. However, since the term Polyphony is borrowed from musical language, it would be necessary to experience it concretely, and this usually does not happen. Those musicians who aspire to be should constantly train themselves in this sense and force themselves to make their ability understood externally, helping those who for reasons of life find themselves experiencing the limit. The field of palliative care is probably the most suitable socio-cultural setting for getting in touch with the personal (mis)interpretations, idiosyncrasies, and pain of those who feel close to the end. To their aid, the aesthetic criterion advances. Making sacred the unifying experience of loss and finiteness turns into an educational process moreover therapeutic, in the co-construction of an elegant "finale" able to reach the heart and intelligence of those who remain.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598736PMC
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The Co-Construction of an Elegant Ending-Polyphonic Musical Intervention in Palliative Care: A Case Study.

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October 2022

Art Research Education, Hospice Palliative Care Unit, Rizza Hospital, ASP 8 (National Health Service), 96100 Siracusa, Italy.

Article Synopsis
  • The creative processes we engage in reveal our struggle to embrace and appreciate diversity due to weaknesses in our multicultural systems.
  • The concept of polyphony is often used metaphorically in discussions about collective experiences, but it needs practical application, particularly in music and community settings.
  • Palliative care serves as a vital environment to understand individual grief and interpretations of loss, transforming this experience into a therapeutic and educational journey that honors both life and the inevitability of death.
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