Hordon, Peregrine

Music As Medicine : The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity

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