<p>Database: Cases and Data.</p>

In addition to studies on music in healthcare that primarily examine music as an auditory stimulus and its effects on care recipients, this study focuses on performative music and considers its impact on the professional level and within the broader organization as well.</p> <p>Methods</p><p>A variety of musical encounters were observed in three healthcare settings.

The encounters were examined ethnographically by open observations and open interviews, enhanced by an elicitation technique.</p> <p>Results</p><p>Inductive analysis revealed two major themes: <i>threshold experiences</i> and <i>connective experiences</i>, organized across three levels: within the musical encounters, among involved professionals, and within the broader organization. These themes comprise a total of 19 subthemes. <i>Precariousness</i> emerged as an overarching construct, articulating the dynamics between threshold and connective experiences.