Abstract
This chapter will highlight the benefits and challenges of ensemble participation in late adulthood, focusing on a case study which considers the continued involvement of aging adult participants in a community orchestra. This was part of a broader study (MacRitchie & Garrido, 2019), but in this chapter, we focus on a subset of players in the orchestra who were aged 50 and over. Here, we investigate the perceived mental, emotional, and social benefits, as well as the challenges, of continued participation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Together in Music: Coordination, Expression, Participation |
| Editors | Renee Timmers, Freya Bailes, Helena Daffern |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 244-249 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780198860761 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |