The Field Of Music Thanatology

A significant event in one's life forces a person to reevaluate their current situation and decide how they will adapt to a new situation, or cause them to look back on the steps they took to get into that situation. In life as well as in the literature Crosswalk In The Rain, and THE TENT DELIVERY WOMAN’S RIDE, people have to adapt to what is happening in their lives, despite conditions they may have been through in the past. In life at some point there will be crossroads that a person must cross, they can either look back at what they have done to end up in that position or they can look forward and see what they must do to continue moving forward.

When people go through something difficult it can change them. Making them who they are, it can change them for the bad or good. Therefore, hardships can greatly influence a person’s life by making them appreciate all the things that make life enjoyable.

The picture that was once grueling is the one I love today. I am proud of the way I chose to learn from the suffering that I endured. Through this accumulated self-love, I have developed a desire to provide love and empathy to every person I meet. It is the love residing within me that will allow myself to leave a mark on the world, it is the fuel of the passion that drives my every step.

We were born at the day, time and place for a reason that our eyes cannot see. We were born with a purpose although we struggle to discover it. We do not have a manual indication what to do on certain circumstances of our life, but we gain experience as we live each day. We fall in love because we feel the warmth in our heart. We suffer too because our heart has been hurt. We keep living, and we keep fighting to find how much our life is worth. We push forward if we are ambitious enough, or we may live stuck in the same limitations that we put on us when we don’t expect more from ourselves. Sooner or later we became aware that we have lived part of our life’s purpose. The other half of our purpose will be fulfilled when we change. We do not choose to be who we are, neither did we picked the conditions we live on, but we choose the attitude to become the person we want to be, we decide when to start our new journey. We can see our life, and our purpose thru Denver’s eyes. We might have seen the endless plantations, and our eyes could have seen the never ending debt. We see the person that has loved us the most die. It is thru Denver’s eyes that we see the train taking us to a place where we are alone. Is true his eyes that we also can see a change. Denver faced several changes in his life than anyone else.

Life is hard. It throws challenges at us in the blink of an eye, not caring how we handle those challenges, and then throws another. The challenges can be small or unnoticeable. On the other end, it can be life changing, from injuries to death of loved ones. These events are impossible to throw aside and how we handle them is how life changes.

When I went to college, I planned to be a musician. I spent my life studying music, and I was passionate about composing music theory. I spent hours looking at the keys, and I explored different methods to make unique sounds. I was required to take electives the first semester; I chose to take psychology. My first essay demonstrated the psychological dynamics of music therapy.

Many people face challenges and obstacles at a very young age and that can change who they are as they grow up. My grandma faced a very harsh and unfortunate childhood. Her father died when she was 17 and that changed her life and her future. It meant she was given many responsibilities since she was the eldest out of her siblings. She had to do many house chores such as cooking, washing the clothes and dishes and waking up early in the morning to get water from a nearby well every day! This placed a very large obstacle in her life at a very young age. She had to leave school at a very young age because of all the responsibilities she was given and had to overcome these obstacles and face them with great integrity. But due to these obstacles that she has overcome, it has changed who she is now. She struggled in life right from when she was just a little kid. But if she hadn’t overcome these obstacles she wouldn’t have been a very independent woman like she is today. If her father hadn’t died when she was young, she probably would have had a completely different

Being raised under the strong influence of a courageous Danish grandmother, I learned that best way to go through life was to be brave and take new opportunities with an adventurous spirit. As the oldest in a family of five children, I soon discovered how important it was to be independent and self-reliant. By middle school, my love of music became a healthy escape from the busy household, and I spent many hours practicing piano and in band rehearsals as a clarinetist. This interest in music opened a door to university that might have otherwise remained closed. Attending the University of Western Ontario as a music education student was a perfect match for me. I had always wanted to be a teacher. I have childhood memories of lining up all of my stuff animals on my bed in front of a makeshift chalkboard, and little Debbie holding a ruler as a pointer stick. I can hardly believe that such a small spark could lead to a lifetime of educational service far from home.

In my education I have striven towards not only reaching a certain level of technical mastery as a musician, but also being a well-rounded and knowledgeable scholar. I have been fortunate enough to pursue my degree in music performance at schools that facilitated a liberal education along with rigorous musical training. Though a good portion of my life until now has been dedicated to music, specifically the practice of performing, I have also fostered an interest in psychology. This pursuit has been driven in part by my fascination with the human experience and the things that come to shape it. Not only has it been about

Ever since my years in elementary school, I have had a love for music. This love developed in middle school where the notion of teaching music came to me. In high school, I knew the profession that was right for me was music education. After graduation, I began my journey to my calling by attending Shepherd University.

The music theory classes that I took when I was an undergraduate student at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) were stimulating and encouraging. Not only did I learn new topics in music theory, but I also had an opportunity to do researches and write small papers. My undergraduate education at Penn State truly convinced me that music theory would be my chosen subject interest. My journey with music theory went a step further at Boston University as I became a graduate teaching assistant in ear training and keyboard harmony. Surprisingly,

Funnily enough, it wasn’t until this class that I even started to consider which music therapy approach I wanted to take. In fact, it wasn’t until this class that I discovered all the approaches there were in music therapy. I always knew that I was interested in working with a population of children however this was an entire new depth level. Of all the interesting approaches, several stood out to me as ones that fit me personally and the career I want to pursue.

Music is an art, an expression, an industry, and most importantly a business. Davis Szatmary, author of “Rockin’ in Time,” states, “[r]ock-and-roll has always been a business” (2014, p. xvi). Music connects to my business major through its relations of marketing, management, and supply chain, or distribution. Without these key components bands, labels, and technology may have never grown to the heights its reached today.

In life, we all go through challenges and it’s either we face them or walk away from it. Growing up, people will always have different ways of handling things that happens in their life. We can’t know what could happen and how we handle it because life is unexpected. As I see it is that if you tend to keep making the same mistakes, you’ll never get passed your past and if you learn from all of your mistakes, you can move forward with your life. Everyone has faced their challenges in their own way and not everything in life will be easy because I can tell you right now that no one’s life is perfect. Everyone has their flaws, but they're perfect in their own way possible.

When I travel back in time, to that critical turning point in my life that changed me forever, expressions of my emotions still, pains my soul and bleeds verse after verse on a tarnished canvas with yesterday’s blood instead of smeared printed words stored up on my bookshelf. As recollected history over my memories considering tense moments couldn’t release or erase my pain, for they have etched themselves in my heart and tear-stains left behind.