Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity

Contents

• Contents: Introduction, Peregrine Horden
• Musical solutions: past and present in Music therapy, Peregrine Horden
• Part I: Ancient Literate Traditions: Commentary on part I with a note on China, Peregrine Horden
• Music therapy in antiquity, Martin West
• Jewish and Muslim traditions of music therapy, Amnon Shiloah
• Music therapy: some possibilities in the Indian tradition J.B. Katz
• Part II: Medieval Europe: Commentary on part II, with a note on the early Middle Ages, Peregrine Horden
• Music and medicine in the thirteenth century, Christopher Page
• Music therapy in the later Middle Ages: the case of Hugo van der Goes, Peter Murray Jones
• Part III: Renaissance and Early Modern Europe: Commentary on part III, with a note on Paracelsus, Peregrine Horden
• Marsilio Ficino, the second Orpheus, Angela Voss
• Music, melancholy and medical spirits in early modern thought, Penelope Gouk
• Curing man and the Cosmos: the power of music in French Renaissance poetry, Noel Heather
• Musical treatments for lovesickness: the early modern heritage, Linda Phyllis Austern
• Part IV: Tarantism: Commentary on part IV, with a note on the origins of Tarantism, Peregrine Horden
• Ritualized illness and music therapy: views of Tarantism in the kingdom of Naples, David Gentilcore
• Medical theories of Tarantism in eighteenth-century Spain, Pilar LeA(3)n Sanz
• Tarantism in contemporary Italy: the Tarantula's dance reviewed and revived, Karen LA1/4dtke
• Part V: Modern currents: Commentary on part V, with notes on nineteenth-century America and on mesmerism and theosophy, Peregrine Horden
• Music as cause and cure of illness in nineteenth-century Europe, Cheryce Kramer
• Shamanism, music and the soul train, Keith Howard
• The music therapy profession in modern Britain, Helen M. Tyler
• Index.