I) Abstract

UNTIL DEATH.. TO ACCOMPANY LIFE WITH MUSIC: ANNETTAS STORY

Roberto Bellavigna, Casa di Riposo Rossi Sidoli Compiano Parma
Annetta is a woman that lived in a Home. She was a very religious person and before entering the
home for the olderly Rossi Sidoli in Compiano near Parma (Italy) she lived in a town in the
mountains. She was a self-sufficienct person, she singed and listened to music in the different
context of my work of musictherapy. In these last years when I worked with musictherapy with
different people (with Dementia, Alzheimer ecc) Annetta came near me and my accordion and
participated, intoned songs or suggested the words. She liked the accordions sound and when she
was a young person she danced folk music. But her conditions of health slowly aggravated and
Annetta lived the end of her life in her room in bed. Few people went into the room, her relatives
lived in America and she wasnt married. I went beside Annettas bed with my accordion and with
improvised music and songs I have accompanied her life until the end. In this experience Annetta
frequently sang one famous song that was about the separation from the mountains and the mother.
She frequently demanded this song. My work with musictherapy in this situation hasnt changed the
word of the song but with calibrate use of accordion have varied the parameters of sound, time,
dynamic, and the structure of the song to adapt to annettas situation to accompany her life towards
the silent. This experience used the method of Sonorous Dialogue with reference to Humanistic
Musictherapy used in Italy.
Roberto Bellavigna roberto.bellavigna@tiscali.it
Sito di riferimento: www.pamonline.it
Topic: Palliative Care

II) Abstract
MUSICTHERAPY IN THE HOME WITH OLD PEOPLE , RATING AND
ORGANIZATION.
The applicative view of musictherapy with old people, offers a variety of situations as much as from
an institutional point of view as from an applicative case. This operating diversity turns out to be, in
my opinion, a point of force of the discipline. A richness of interests emerges and an unquestionable
effort towards common values of action. More and more informative channels are opening useful
for a cohesion of intentions, in Italy and in foreign countries. Center of the objective are obviously
old people in their relationship with the sound. In this international contest My participation will
illustrate my activity in the Casa di Riposo Rossi Sidoli near Parma (Italy) a big Home for old
people. Here Im working with self-sufficienct people, people with Alzheimer Dementia Parkinson
disease or people at the end of life. The context and the setting is different but there are common
objectives: social integration, activation of rehabilitation of movement through music, prevention
of loss of cognitive skills ,to accompany life with music until death. This work is organized in
agreement with other people who work in the home. In Compiano we exploit protocols to analyse
the results. In this context In these years we have worked to elaborate protocol that has one clear
development of the different situations in musictherapy. These protocols are used in others homes in
Italy. This project used the method of Sonorous dialogue with reference at Humanistic
Musictherapy used in Italy.
Roberto Bellavigna roberto.bellavigna@tiscali.it
Sito di riferimento: www.pamonline.it
Topic: Quality of life