Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity

by Horden,Peregrine

• ISBN13: 9781840142990
• ISBN10: 1840142995
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Music, whether performed or heard, has been seen as therapeutic in the history of many cultures. How have its therapeutic properties been conceptualized and explained? Which cultures have used music therapy? What were their aims and techniques, and how much continuity is there between ancient, medieval and modern practice?These are the questions addressed by the essays in this volume. They focus on the place of music therapy in European intellectual, medical and musical traditions, from their classical roots to the development of the music therapy profession since the Second World War. Chapters covering the Judaic, Islamic, Indian and South-East Asian traditions add global, comparative perspectives.Music as Medicine is the first book to establish the whole shape of the history of music therapy in a systematic and scholarly way. It addresses the problem of defining what music therapy has meant in different cultures and periods, and sets the agenda for future research in the subject. It will appeal to a diverse readership of historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and practitioners.

Author Biography

Peregrine Horden is Wellcome Trust Research Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Linda Phyllis Austern, Northwestern University David Gentilcore, University of Leicester Penelope Gouk, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester Noel Heather, Royal Holloway College, University of London Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway College, University of London Keith Howard, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Peter Murray Jones, King's College, Cambridge J. B. Katz, Westminster School, London Cheryce Kramer, University College, London Pilar Leon Sanz, University of Navarra, Pamplona Karen Ludtke, Linacre College, Oxford Christopher Page, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Amnon Shiloah, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Helen M. Tyler, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, London Angela Voss, University of Kent Martin West, All Souls College, Oxford

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(3)
Peregrine Horden
Musical Solutions: Past and Present in Music Therapy	4	(47)
Peregrine Horden
PART I: ANCIENT LITERATE TRADITIONS
Commentary on Part I, with a Note on China	43	(8)
Peregrine Horden
Music Therapy in Antiquity	51	(18)
Martin West
Jewish and Muslim Traditions of Music Therapy	69	(15)
Amnon Shiloah
Music Therapy: Some Possibilities in the Indian Tradition	84	(25)
J. B. Katz
PART II: MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Commentary on Part II, with a Note on the Early Middle Ages	103	(6)
Peregrine Horden
Music and Medicine in the Thirteenth Century	109	(11)
Christopher Page
Music Therapy in the Later Middle Ages: The Case of Hugo van der Goes	120	(34)
Peter Murray Jones
PART III: RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Commentary on Part III, with a Note on Paracelsus	147	(7)
Peregrine Horden
Marsilio Ficino, the Second Orpheus	154	(19)
Angela Voss
Music, Melancholy, and Medical Spirits in Early Modern Thought	173	(22)
Penelope Gouk
Curing Man and the Cosmos: The Power of Music in French Renaissance Poetry	195	(18)
Noel Heather
Musical Treatments for Lovesickness: The Early Modern Heritage	213	(42)
Linda Phyllis Austern
PART IV: TARANTISM
Commentary on Part IV, with a Note on the Origins of Tarantism	249	(6)
Peregrine Horden
Ritualized Illness and Music Therapy: Views of Tarantism in the Kingdom of Naples	255	(18)
David Gentilcore
Medical Theories of Tarantism in Eighteenth-Century Spain	273	(20)
Pilar Leon Sanz
Tarantism in Contemporary Italy: The Tarantula's Dance Reviewed and Revived	293	(45)
Karen Ludtke
PART V: MODERN CURRENTS
Commentary on Part V, with Notes on Nineteenth-Century America and on Mesmerism and Theosophy	315	(23)
Peregrine Horden
Music as Cause and Cure of Illness in Nineteenth-Century Europe	338	(15)
Cheryce Kramer
Shamanism, Music, and the Soul Train	353	(22)
Keith Howard
The Music Therapy Profession in Modern Britain	375	(20)
Helen M. Tyler
Index	395