English Summary: Improvisation has a musical, psychological and social explosiveness. It can break through walls of convention, rigidity or blockage. For this very reason, many have avoided this area. In this book, several approaches of how to deal with this rich material as a musician, therapist, teacher, entertainer - or as a playful, aware and curious person in everyday life - are illustrated step-by-step. The theme is the musical form of personal expression in the moment, or improvisation.Its changing and healing power ranges from attentive listening to the environment in which we live,...

English summary: The "music therapy component theory" known from Transitions Between Language and Music (now out of print) appears fully revised and greatly reduced in the first part of this text. The second part develops a general therapy view of improvisation as a social model. On this basis, the social, musical, and methodological differentiation of the theory's components are investigated qualitatively and quantitatively from a unique research approach, leading to surprising results. German description: Die aus "Ubergange zwischen Sprache und Musik" bekannte "musiktherapeutische...