Community Music Therapy

Culture-Centered Music Therapy

Music Therapy with Older Adults

Music Therapy Theory

Academic article

• Viggo Krüger; Brynjulf Stige (2015). Between rights and realities – music as a structuring resource in child welfare everyday life: a qualitative study. (external link)
• Reidar Dahle; Torhild Kielland; Brynjulf Stige et al. (2015). Musikkterapi, rus og psykisk helse – brukererfaringer. (external link)
• Hanne Mette O. Ridder; Brynjulf Stige; Liv Gunnhild Qvale et al. (2013). Individual music therapy for agitation in dementia: an exploratory randomized controlled trial. (external link)
• Ole Kristian Einarsen; Viggo Krüger; Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al. (2024). Collaboration Between Social Workers and Music Therapists in a Child Welfare Context for Unaccompanied Refugee Children. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Astrid Strandbu; Brynjulf Stige (2014). Musikkterapi som ettervernstiltak i barnevernet - deltakelse og jevnalderfellesskap. (external link)
• Randi Rolvsjord; Christian Gold; Brynjulf Stige (2005). Research Rigour and Therapeutic Flexibility: Rationale for a Therapy Manual Developed for a Randomised Controlled Trial. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Lars Ole Bonde; Mona Hallin et al. (1998). Aesthetic Practices in Music Therapy. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Randi Rolvsjord; Brynjulf Stige (2005). Resource-oriented music therapy for psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (RCT-MTPSY). (external link)
• Christian Moltu; Per-Einar Binder; Brynjulf Stige (2012). Collaborating with the client: Skilled psychotherapists' experiences of the client's agency as a premise for their own contribution in difficult therapies ending well. (external link)
• Hanne Mette O. Ridder; Brynjulf Stige (2015). Musikterapi til reduktion af agitation hos personer med demens.. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2015). Music therapy as academic education: A five-year integrated MA programme as a lighthouse model?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2006). The Problem of Pleasure in Music Therapy. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Randi Rolvsjord; Karin Mössler et al. (2013). Reliability and validity of a scale to measure interest in music among clients in mental health care. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2006). On a Notion of Participation in Music Therapy. (external link)
• Tiri Bergesen Schei; Magne Espeland; Brynjulf Stige (2013). Research and research education in music – disciplinary or interdisciplinary approach?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1996). Om Improvisational Assessment Profiles (IAP). Del II: Klinisk og forskningsmessig relevans. (external link)
• Frode Aass Kristiansen; Brynjulf Stige; Anna Helle-Valle (2023). Characteristics of music therapy With beneficial impacts on agitation in dementia. (external link)
• Gro Trondalen; Brynjulf Stige (2008). Autorisasjon av musikkterapeuter. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Karin Mössler; Denise Grocke et al. (2013). Individual music therapy for mental health care clients with low therapy motivation: multicentre randomised controlled trial. (external link)
• Christine Henriksen Ødegaard; Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen; Marius Veseth et al. (2022). Health care workers’ perspectives on the challenges and possibilities of music therapy within medication-free treatment services. (external link)
• Anna Helle-Valle; Per-Einar Binder; Norman Anderssen et al. (2017). Is restlessness best understood as a process? Reflecting on four boys’ restlessness during music therapy in kindergarten.. (external link)
• Fugle Gunn Karoline; Unni Johns; Anne-Grethe Halding et al. (2025). Musikkterapi i tverrfagleg behandling i psykisk helsevern for barn og unge. (external link)
• Kathleen M. Murphy; Viggo Krüger; Noah Pomerselig et al. (2023). Community Music Therapy in the United States: A Thematic Analysis. (external link)
• Lars Tuastad; Brynjulf Stige (2015). The revenge of Me and THE BAND’its: A narrative inquiry of identity constructions in a rock band of ex-inmates. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Kirsti Malterud; Torjus Midtgarden (2009). Toward an agenda for evaluation of qualitative research. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Do We Need General Criteria for the Evaluation of Qualitative Research Articles, and If We Do, How Should Such Criteria Be Formulated?. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Brynjulf Stige (2013). Perspektiv på musikkterapi i barnevernet: Musikk som ressurs for å fremme barn og unges deltagelse. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1995). Om Improvisational Assessment Profiles (IAP). Del I: Grunnlagsproblemer. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Dag Øystein Nordanger; Brynjulf Stige (2018). Music therapy: Building Bridges Between a Participatory Approach and Trauma-informed Care in a Child Welfare Setting. (external link)
• Julie K Krøier; Brynjulf Stige; Hanne Mette Ridder (2021). Non-Verbal Interactions between Music Therapists and Persons with Dementia. A Qualitative Phenomenological and Arts-Based Inquiry. (external link)
• Randi Rolvsjord; Brynjulf Stige; Lars Ole Bonde et al. (1998). Når musikken minner om livet. Musikalsk samhandling som reminisens En innfallsvinkel til musikkterapi i geriatrien. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Om å få system på samfunnsmusikkterapien. (external link)
• Åsmund Espeland; Brynjulf Stige (2021). Teaching repertoires and pedagogical improvisation in music teacher practices. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2015). The practice turn in music therapy theory. (external link)
• Kaja Elise Åslid Enge; Brynjulf Stige; Dag Nordanger (2024). Refugee Children’s Perspectives on Participating in Music Therapy: A Qualitative Study. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Nina Bolstad; Brynjulf Stige (2016). Hvorfor og hvordan utvikle musikkterapi i barnevernet? Om tjenesteutvikling og forskning som samspillende sosiale praksiser. (external link)
• Sarah I.M. Janus; Annemiek Vink; Hanne Mette Ridder et al. (2020). Developing consensus description of group music therapy characteristics for persons with dementia. (external link)
• Anna Helle-Valle; Per-Einar Binder; Brynjulf Stige (2015). Do we understand children’s restlessness? Constructing ecologically valid understandings through reflexive cooperation. (external link)
• Christine Henriksen Ødegaard; Larry Davidson; Brynjulf Stige et al. (2020). "It means so much for me to have a choice": A qualitative study providing first-person perspectives on medication-free treatment in mental health care. (external link)
• Israel Paul Nyarubeli; Bente Elisabeth Moen; Viggo Krüger et al. (2025). Music-based interventions at workplaces: a scoping review. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2008). Dancing the Drama and Singing for Life: On Ethnomusicology and Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2014). Community music therapy and the process of learning about and struggling for openness.. (external link)
• Jørgen Aasen Berget; Trude Senneseth; Brynjulf Stige (2023). Betydningsfull gjennom musikk: En samfunnspsykologisk studie av musikkterapiens ringvirkninger i barnehagen. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Jaakko Erkillä (1998). Qualitative Research Interviews as a Part of the Music Therapy Process. (external link)
• Randi Rolvsjord; Brynjulf Stige (2015). Concepts of context in music therapy. (external link)
• Heine Steinkopf; Dag Nordanger; Brynjulf Stige et al. (2020). How do staff in residential care transform Trauma-Informed Principles into practice? A qualitative study from a Norwegian child welfare context. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2010). Evaluering av kvalitativ forsking – er det ønskjeleg og mogeleg med ei ny tilnærming?. (external link)
• Heine Steinkopf; Dag Nordanger; Anne Halvorsen et al. (2020). Prerequisites for maintaining emotion self-regulation in social work with traumatized adolescents: A qualitative study among social workers in a Norwegian residential care unit. (external link)
• Orii McDermott; Hanne Mette O. Ridder; Felicity A. Baker et al. (2018). Indirect Music Therapy Practice and Skill-Sharing in Dementia Care.. (external link)
• Christine Henriksen Ødegaard; Ana Lorena Ruano; Anne Alnes Blindheim et al. (2022). How can we best help this patient? Exploring mental health therapists’ reflections on medication-free care for patients with psychosis in Norway. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Jørg Assmus; Kjetil Hjørnevik et al. (2013). Music therapy for prisoners: pilot randomised controlled trial and implications for evaluating psychosocial interventions. (external link)
• Maren Metell; Brynjulf Stige (2016). Blind spots in music therapy. Toward a critical notion of participation in context of children with visual impairment. (external link)
• Gary Ansdell; Brynjulf Stige (2018). Can Music Therapy Still Be Humanist?. (external link)
• Randi Rolvsjord; Christian Gold; Brynjulf Stige (2005). Research rigour and therapeutic flexibility rationale for a therapy manual developed for a randomised controlled trial. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Randi Rolvsjord (2009). Pionerer i mer enn femti å. - om brudd og kontinuitet i musikkterapiens historie i bergen. (external link)
• Lucy Bolger; Katrina McFerran; Brynjulf Stige (2018). Hanging out and buying in: Rethinking relationship building to avoid tokenism when striving for collaboration in music therapy. (external link)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Hanne Weie Oddli; Aslak Hjeltnes et al. (2024). The researcher as instrument - how our capacity for empathy supports qualitative analysis of transcripts. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Dag Øystein Nordanger; Brynjulf Stige (2017). Musikkterapi og traumebevisst omsorg i barnevernet. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Dancing Interfaces. Response to Even Ruud’s paper ‘"New Musicology", Music Education and Music Therapy.’. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Polyphonic Voices. Aesthetic Aspects of Music Therapy Improvisations. (external link)
• Simon Høffding; Torben Snekkestad; Brynjulf Stige (2023). Enactivist music therapy: Toward theoretical innovation and integration. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1993). Endringar i det musikkterapeutiske "rommet" - med kulturarbeid i lokalsamfunnet som eit eksempel Changes in the Music Therapy "Space" - With Cultural Engagement in the Local Community as an Example. (external link)
• Randi Rolvsjord; Brynjulf Stige; Lars Ole Bonde et al. (1998). Another story about Edward. (external link)
• Randi Rolvsjord; Christian Gold; Brynjulf Stige (2005). Therapeutic Principles for Resource-oriented Music Therapy: a Contextual Approach to the Field of Mental Health. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Kirsti Malterud; Torjus Midtgarden (2011). EPICURE : et dialogisk redskab til evaluering af kvalitativ forskning. (external link)
• Kaja Elise Åslid Enge; Brynjulf Stige (2021). Musical pathways to the peer community: A collective case study of refugee children’s use of music therapy. (external link)
• Lars Tuastad; Brynjulf Stige (2018). Music as a way out: How musicking helped a collaborative rock band of ex-inmates. (external link)
• Gro Trondalen; Brynjulf Stige; Reidar Dale et al. (2016). Musikkterapi i rusbehandling. (external link)
• Claire Ghetti; Steinar Hjelmbrekke; Katharina Teresa Enehaug Morken et al. (2024). Steering the energy with music: hermeneutic phenomenological study of user perspectives of music and music therapy for co-occurring ADHD and substance use problems. (external link)
• Åsmund Espeland; Brynjulf Stige (2017). The teacher as co-musician: Exploring practices in music teaching.. (external link)
• Heine Steinkopf; Dag Nordanger; Brynjulf Stige et al. (2021). Experiences of Becoming Emotionally Dysregulated. A Qualitative Study of Staff in Youth Residential Care. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Jasmin Eickholt; Jörg Assmus et al. (2019). Music Interventions for Dementia and Depression in ELderly care (MIDDEL): Protocol and statistical analysis plan for a multinational cluster-randomised trial. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Carolyn Kenny; Brynjulf Stige (2012). All of the Time, For a Very Long Time: Our Thanks to Barbara Wheeler. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). Voices – A World Forum?. (external link)
• Susan Hadley; Katrina McFerran; Brynjulf Stige (2014). Dialogue and Equity. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2015). Practice and Policy, Context and History. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2017). Emergent alliances. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2008). The aesthetic or multiple aesthetics? A response to Kenneth Aigen. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). The Personal is Professional: In Memory of Clive Robbins. (external link)
• Susan Hadley; McFerran Katrina; Brynjulf Stige (2014). New Voices, New Beginnings.. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2007). Music as Equipment for Living. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Carolyn Kenny (2007). Does Music Therapy Work the Way We Think It Works?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2018). Moments and Open Doors: a Tribute to Mercédès Pavlicevic,. (external link)
• Susan Hadley; Katrina McFerran; Brynjulf Stige (2020). Relational Processes of Critical Thinking. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Katrina McFerran; Susan Hadley (2017). We’re forever grateful, dear Big Sister.. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2013). With Appreciation and Anticipation. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Brynjulf Stige (2006). Musikk og helse i lokalsamfunnet. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). Health Musicking: A Perspective on Music and Health as Action and Performance. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). Notes on Culture-Centered Music Therapy: Evolution, Emerging Practices, And Embodied Meanings. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2022). Music Therapy and Human Rights Issues in the Clinic and the Community.. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). History and Heritage - On Tradition and Innovation in Creative Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Alison Ledger (2016). Ethnographic Research.. (external link)
• Tone Sæther Kvamme; Brynjulf Stige (2016). Musikkterapi i praksis: en innføring. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Carolyn Kenny (2002). A New Avenue for Communication among Music Therapy Communities. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Carolyn Kenny (2002). Introduction - The Turn to Culture. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2017). Profile 40: Brynjulf Stige – Norway. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2021). Artistic citizenship and the crafting of mutual musical care. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2008). Musikkterapiforsking - mellom praksis og akademia. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2011). The Doors and Windows of the Dressing Room: Culture-Centered Music Therapy in a Mental Health Setting. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2022). Music Therapy’s Ecology of Knowledges. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). The Fostering of Not-knowing Barefoot Supervisors. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2015). Community Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Musikk som tilbud om deltakelse. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Participatory Action Research. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Katrina McFerran (2016). Action Research. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2004). Community Music Therapy: Culture, Care and Welfare. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Is it Possible?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2011). The Grieg Effect – On Music Therapy as Source of Knowledge about the Contextualized Effects of Music. (external link)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Aslak Hjeltnes; Hanne Berit Weie Oddli et al. (2024). Empati i kvalitativ analyse. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2016). Culture-Centered Music Therapy. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Brynjulf Stige (2016). Music as a Structuring Resource: A Perspective from Community Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2008). Samfunnsmusikkterapi - mellom kvardag og klinikk. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2017). Kva kan musikkterapi vere?. (external link)
• Carolyn Kenny; Brynjulf Stige (2002). Epilogue. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Tony Wigram; Jos De Backer (1999). The Meaning of Music - from the Client's Perspective. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Roger Strand (2016). Philosophical Inquiries. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Ethnography and Ethographically Informed Research. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2022). I takt? Musikkaktivitet i kvardag, miljøterapi og musikkterapi. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2018). Partnerships for health musicking: A case for connecting music therapy and public health practices.. (external link)
• Gary Ansdell; Brynjulf Stige (2016). Community Music Therapy. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Brynjulf Stige (2006). Some Reflections on Community Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). Premises and Purposes of Research in Community Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2006). Participation and Health through Community Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Christian Gold (2006). Music therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Towards a Clinically Relevant Concept of Culture. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1991). Musiske born. Kjenneteikn på ein improvisatorisk musikkterapimetode. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1994). Høyrer du kva eg ikkje seier? Om musikkterapeutisk kartlegging av førskulebarn. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1998). Qualitative Interviews - Methodological Reflections. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1996). Music and social interaction. Music therapy assessment, intervention, and evaluation in a transactional perspective. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). EPICURE – Steps Toward Dialogue-based Evaluation of Qualitative Research. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2006). Trends in Research and Theory Development in Contemporary Music Therapy. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Dag Øystein Nordanger; Brynjulf Stige (2017). Musikkterapi i spennet mellom traumebevisst omsorg og deltakelse i barnevernet. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1999). Hypertexts in Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1997). A Pragmatic Perspective on the Meaning of Music. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1995). Music, Music Therapy and Health Promotion. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2009). The Idea of Health Musicing. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2004). Community Music Therapy and Cultural Change. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2013). The Need for a Progressive Research Programme on Music, Health and Wellbeing. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2016). Creating Posts for Music Therapists within the Changing Realities of Contemporary Health Care Systems – how is that related to theory, research, and ethics?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2016). Are the Arts Therapies PREPARE-d for Social Activism?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2006). Co-presence in Sound and Movement: Music Therapy as Interaction Ritual. (external link)
• Katrina McFerran; Brynjulf Stige (2012). Is There a Need for Metatheoretical Perspectives in a Creative Discipline Like Music Therapy?. (external link)
• Tiri Bergesen Schei; Brynjulf Stige; Magne Espeland (2012). 21. Century Research Education in the Arts: A Disciplinary or Interdisciplinary Approach?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Music and health - what has participation to do with it?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Putting Community Music therapy on the Map. (external link)
• Signe Hjelen Stige; Hanne Berit Weie Oddli; Aslak Hjeltnes et al. (2024). Researcher empathy as a facilitator and potential resource for qualitative data analyses . (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2017). Partnerships for health musicking – On the relevance of community music therapy in contemporary societies. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2000). Dancing Interfaces. Response. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Perspectives on Music Therapy in the Community. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Voices, Echoes and Hums: Sharing across Borders. (external link)
• Gary Ansdell; Mercédès Pavlicevic; Brynjulf Stige (2005). Community Music Therapy: Aspects and prospects. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Toward a Theory of Community Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2015). The Context-Renewing Collaborative Doing of Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2016). In between individual agency and social structure: research implications of depicting music therapy as social practice. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2009). Social space and everyday rituals in music therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2017). Possibilities and pitfalls in the development of the music therapy profession in Europe. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2020). Culture-Centered Music Therapy Revisited: Music as Exploratory Practice. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). EPICURE – Proposed Criteria for Evaluation of Qualitative Research Articles. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). Activism and the Notion of Partnership in Community Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2006). Thoughts on the Transdisciplinary Character of Music Therapy. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Dag Øystein Nordanger; Brynjulf Stige (2018). Musikkterapi i spennet mellom traumebevisst omsorg og deltakelse i barnevernet. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Leslie Bunt (2014). Toward a Culture of Hybridity in Music Therapy?. (external link)
• Christian Moltu; Per-Einar Binder; Brynjulf Stige (2011). Collaborating with the patient in the struggle toward growth: Skilled psychotherapists’ experiences of the patient in difficult therapies ending well. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Music Therapy - Psychotherapy or Sociotherapy?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Principles of Participatory Action Research. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Writing music therapy. Clinical research as ethnography Scrivere la musicoterapia. La ricera clinica come etnografia. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1993). Music Therapy as Cultural Engagement, or: How to change the world, if only a bit La Musicoterapia como Compromiso Cultural, o : Como cambiar el mundo - aunque sólo sea un poquito. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2007). The Problem of Standards for Qualitative Research in Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2007). The Challenge of Participation: Experiences from Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Linn Okkenhaug Getz; Morten Sommerbakk et al. (2018). Kropp og sjel og sånn. Hva vet vi om sammenhengene mellom levd liv, følelser og estetikk på den ene siden, og helse på den andre?. (external link)
• Trygve Aasgaard; Brynjulf Stige (2005). Researching Community Music Therapy: Topics, Objectives, and Methods. (external link)
• Kristianne Storhaug Ervik; Hans Petter Solli; Brynjulf Stige et al. (2022). Brukerstemmens plass i norsk musikkterapi.. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2017). Health as universal right and localized culture. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Brynjulf Stige (2004). Dealing with heterogeneity in treatment implementation: An example from music therapy in psychiatry. (external link)

Popular science article

• Brynjulf Stige (2007). Kva musikkterapi kunne ha vore. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). History and Heritage. An essay based on a reading and playing of Robbins & Robbins (Eds.) "Healing Heritage: Paul Nordoff Exploring the Tonal Language of Music". (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Endre Furu; Grete Skarpeid et al. (1998). Hva er prosessmusikk?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2004). Feminists, Postcolonialists, and Other Music Therapists. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Endre Furu; Grete Skarpeid et al. (1998). Gruppeprosess, musikkbruk og virksomme faktorer. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2007). The Grieg Effect - On the Contextualized Effects of Music in Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Gro Trondalen (2018). Profesjonskompetanse og karriereveier i musikkterapi. Om spesialistutdanning for musikkterapeuter.. (external link)
• Torhild Kielland; Brynjulf Stige; Gro Trondalen (2013). Musikkterapi i rusfeltet. Praksisnær forskning og kunnskapsutvikling. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). The Relentless Roots of Community Music Therapy. (external link)

Research report

• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Trivselshagen - Eit nasjonalt pilotprosjekt for utvikling av velferdstilbod i distriktskommunar. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Wolfgang Schmid; Hans Petter Solli et al. (2020). Utredning av muligheter for spesialistutdanning i musikkterapi. (external link)

Journal review

• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Something Glorious. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Quandaries of Translation. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1998). Music Therapy in Context. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Music as a Health Resource. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1999). Flexibility and Reflexibility. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2006). From Parody to High Quality Hybridity. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2008). Music and healing across cultures. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Aesthetic aspects of Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Roots. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Bokmedling av "Kunsten som sjelens arkitekt. Kunst, galskap og terapi". (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Routes. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1997). Music throughout life. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2000). Bi0ology, Culture, and Music Therapy. (external link)
• Randi Rolvsjord; Brynjulf Stige (2003). Introduction to "Theory Building in Music Therapy - An Internationial Archive.". (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Bridged Genres. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Carolyn Kenny (2005). The Vitality of Vulnerable Voices. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Of Doors an Windows. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1996). En skulptur av øyeblikk. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1996). Jyväskylä next! Jyväskylä neste!. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Beyond Objectivism and Relativism?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). NJMT 1992-2002: Toward a Third Culture?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Beyond Biological and Cultural Determinism?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Review of "Beginning Research in the Arts Therapies". (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1999). Når gleden er målet. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1998). Dialogues. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Feminine Beginnings. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2006). Under the Voice of the Other. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). [Anmeldelse] Professional communication. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Forms of Life - Forms of Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1998). It's so universal!. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1998). Art and Music: Therapy and Research. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1999). History and Heritage. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1999). Lexikon Musiktherapie. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Lars Ole Bonde; Mona Hallin et al. (1998). En klingende bro - en samtale uten ord. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Which Academic Education?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2005). Professional Communication. Review of: Aigen, Ken (2003). A Guide to Writing and Presenting in Music Therapy. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2000). Meanings of Musicking. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1997). A Tradition of Innovation. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1999). http://www.hisf.no/njmt. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1998). New Texts. (external link)

Lecture

• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Trivselshagen - nye perspektiv på velferdstenester i distrikts-Noreg Trivselshagen - nye perspektiv på velferdstenester i distrikts-Noreg. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Randi Rolvsjord; Brynjulf Stige et al. (2018). Firepartsamarbeidet, rundebordsdebatt. (external link)
• Hans Petter Solli; Brynjulf Stige (2016). Musikkterapi i psykisk helse- og rusfeltet: hva trenger vi av kompetanse, og hvor går veien videre?. (external link)
• Simon Gilbertson; Viggo Krüger; Maren Metell et al. (2024). GAMUT Roundtable. (external link)
• Gro Trondalen; Brynjulf Stige; Karsten Specht (2017). Musikk som terapi. (external link)
• Gro Trondalen; Brynjulf Stige (2015). Høring: St.m.26 Musikkterapi i fremtidens primærhelsetjenester. (external link)
• Hilde Freim; Torhild Kielland; Brynjulf Stige (2022). Musikkterapi- rus og psykisk helse: et filmprosjekt. (external link)
• Hilde Freim; Torhild Kielland; Brynjulf Stige et al. (2022). Musikkterapi- rus og psykisk helse: et filmprosjekt. (external link)
• Hans Petter Solli; Brynjulf Stige; Gro Trondalen et al. (2020). Spesialistutdanning i musikkterapi – trenger vi det?. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Brynjulf Stige (1991). Musiske born. Ein tekst om improvisatorisk musikkterapi. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Carolyn Kenny (2002). Contemporary VOICES of Music Therapy. Communication, Culture, and Community. (external link)
• Leslie Bunt; Brynjulf Stige (2014). Music Therapy - An Art Beyond Words (2nd Edition). (external link)

Academic monograph

• Jautrė Ramutė Šinkūnienė; Brynjulf Stige (2012). Bendruomeniškumas, komunikacija ir muzika: sociokultūriniai negalios aspektai [Sense of Community, Communication and Music: Socio-cultural Aspects of Disability]. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). Elaborations Toward a Notion of Community Music Therapy (revised edition with new foreword). (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2002). Culture-Centered Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Gary Ansdell; Cochavit Elefant et al. (2010). Where Music Helps. Community Music Therapy in Action and Reflection. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Brynjulf Stige; Wolfgang Schmid; Hans Petter Solli et al. (2020). Debattinnlegg: Den nærmeste utviklingssonen for musikkterapeutprofesjonen. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Wolfgang Schmid; Hans Petter Solli et al. (2020). Debattinnlegg: Spesialisering for musikkterapeuter?. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Ingjald Pilskog; Kjetil Vikene; Brynjulf Stige et al. (2023). Musikalsk terapeutisk helaften på Kvarteret. (external link)
• Gro Trondalen; Brynjulf Stige (2014). Implementering og opfølging av nasjonale retningslinjer for utredning, behandling og oppfølging av personer med psykoselidelser. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Christian Gold; Stefan Koelsch; Brynjulf Stige (2019). Musikkterapi. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Katrina McFerran (2018). Community Music Therapy. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Hans Petter Solli; Claire Ghetti (2011). Musikkterapi i rusfeltet. (external link)

Other presentation

• Nettum, L.N.; Gro Trondalen; Maren Metell et al. (2025). Rundbord: Musikkterapi i pedagogisk/spesialpedagogisk kontekst. Hvor står vi, og hvor går veien videre?. (external link)

Media feature article

• Brynjulf Stige (2007). RagnaRock. (external link)
• Bente Elisabeth Moen; Israel Paul Nyarubeli; Viggo Krüger et al. (2024). Kan vi tenke nytt om musikk til arbeidet?. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2015). Musikken gløymer dei aldri. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2012). Reflections on Tony Wigram’s contribution to Nordic music therapy. (external link)

Conference poster

• Line Iden Berge; Solgunn Knardal; Frode wikne et al. (2019). Alight: The development and pilot testing of a prototype tablet application for elderly persons with affective disorders or cognitive impairment. A collaboration between patients and caregivers, clinical, academic and commercial organizations. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Brynjulf Stige; Myrphy Kathleen et al. (2021). Community Music Therapy in the United States: A Qualitative Inquiry. (external link)
• Christian Gold; Randi Rolvsjord; Brynjulf Stige (2004). Efficacy of resource-oriented music therapy in psychiatry: Systematic review and randomised controlled trial. (external link)

Book anthology

• Brynjulf Stige; Hanne Mette O. Ridder (2016). Musikkterapi og eldrehelse. (external link)

Introduction

• Brynjulf Stige (2017). Phases of transition in the economics and ethics of the arts therapies. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2015). Forord: Musikkterapiteori som handling. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2017). Foreword: Actual Families, Possible Practices. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Anna Helle-Valle; Brynjulf Stige; Per-Einar Binder et al. (2016). How do we understand children's restlessness? A cooperative and reflexive exploration of children's restlessness as a bioecological phenomenon. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Elaborations toward a Notion of Community Music Therapy. (external link)

Professional article

• Brynjulf Stige; Gro Trondalen (2014). Hvor er vi - hvor går vi? Om autorisajon, nasjonale retningslinjer og implementering av musikkterapi i helsevesenet. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1999). All this, and music therapy, and heavens too! Clive Robbins i Nord(off)-fjord. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Dagrun Agnes Vikesland (1999). Lokal kunnskap for ein global landsby? Internasjonalisering i musikkterapistudiet. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2017). POLYFON kunnskapsklynge – og eit økologisk perspektiv på musikkterapeutisk fag- og profesjonsutvikling. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2003). Musikk og helse - smør på flesk, jordbær med brun saus, eller sukker og gjær?. (external link)
• Viggo Krüger; Brynjulf Stige (2013). Musikkterapi og barnevernsbarns rett til samfunnsdeltagelse. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Heritage of Courage. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Helse på akkord. Om musikkterapi og helsefremjande arbeid. (external link)
• Gro Trondalen; Randi Rolvsjord; Brynjulf Stige (2010). Music Therapy in Norway - Approaching a New Decade. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Musikk i kvardag og høgtid. (external link)

Media interview

• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Layers of Meaning. Dorit Amir interviewed by Brynjulf Stige. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (2001). Music, Meaning and Experience as Therapy. Ken Aigen Interviewed by Brynjulf Stige. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige (1997). Music and INfant Interaction. Colwyn Trevarthen Interviewed by Brynjulf Stige. (external link)

Textbook

• Brynjulf Stige (1995). Samspel og relasjon. Perspektiv på ein inkluderande musikkpedagogikk. (external link)
• Brynjulf Stige; Leif Edvard Aarø (2012). Invitation to community music therapy. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected books

 

Bunt, L. & Stige, B. (in press). Music Therapy: An Art beyond Words. London: Routledge.

Stige, B. (2002). Culture-Centered Music Therapy. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.

Stige, B. (2003/2012). Elaborations toward a Notion of Community Music Therapy. Gilsum, NH: Barcelona Publishers.

Stige, B. & Aarø, L. E. (2012). Invitation to Community Music Therapy. New York: Routledge.

Stige, B., Ansdell, G., Elefant, C. & Pavlicevic, M. (2010). Where Music Helps. Community Music Therapy in Action and Reflection. Farnham, UK: Ashgate.