Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity

414 Pages·2016·15.78 MB·English

by  Peregrine Horden (Editor)

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Frontispiece Aldobrandino of Siena, Livres pour la sauté garder
(Régime du corps), late thirteenth century. British
Library, Sloane MS 2435, f. 10v.
Music as Medicine
The History of Music Therapy
since Antiquity
Edited by
PEREGRINE HORDEN
D Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since
Antiquity.
1. Music therapy—History.
I. Horden, Peregrine.
615.8’ 5154
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-68871
ISBN 13: 978-1-84014-299-0 (hbk)
Contents
List of Figures Vll
List of Contributors IX
Acknowledgements XI
Introduction
Peregrine Horden
1 Musical Solutions: Past and Present in Music Therapy 4
Peregrine Horden
PART I: ANCIENT LITERATE TRADITIONS
Commentary on Part I, with a Note on China 43
Peregrine Horden
2 Music Therapy in Antiquity 51
Martin West
3 Jewish and Muslim Traditions of Music Therapy 69
Amnon Shiloah
4 Music Therapy: Some Possibilities in the Indian Tradition 84
J. B. Katz
PART II: MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Commentary on Part II, with a Note on the Early Middle Ages 103
Peregrine Horden
5 Music and Medicine in the Thirteenth Century 109
Christopher Page
6 Music Therapy in the Later Middle Ages:
The Case of Hugo van der Goes 120
Peter Murray Jones
PART III: RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Commentary on Part III, with a Note on Paracelsus 147
Peregrine Horden
7 Marsilio Ficino, the Second Orpheus 154
Angela Voss
vi CONTENTS
8 Music, Melancholy, and Medical Spirits in Early
Modem Thought 173
Penelope Gouk
9 Curing Man and the Cosmos: The Power of Music in
French Renaissance Poetry 195
Noel Heather
10 Musical Treatments for Lovesickness:
The Early Modem Heritage 213
Linda Phyllis Austern
PART IV: TARANTISM
Commentary on Part IV, with a Note on the Origins
of Tarantism 249
Peregrine Horden
11 Ritualized Illness and Music Therapy: Views of Tarantism
in the Kingdom of Naples 255
David Gentilcore
12 Medical Theories of Tarantism in Eighteenth-Century Spain 273
Pilar León Sanz
13 Tarantism in Contemporary Italy: The Tarantula’s Dance
Reviewed and Revived 293
Karen Lüddlktkee
PART V: MODERN CURRENTS
Commentary on Part V, with Notes on Nineteenth-Century
America and on Mesmerism and Theosophy 315
Peregrine Horden
14 Music as Cause and Cure of Illness in Nineteenth-
Century Europe 338
Cheryce Kramer
15 Shamanism, Music, and the Soul Train 353
Keith Howard
16 The Music Therapy Profession in Modem Britain 375
Helen M. Tyler
Index 395
List of Figures
Frontispiece Aldobrandino of Siena, Livres pour la
sauté garder (Régime du corps), late
thirteenth century. British Library, Sloane
MS 2435, f. 10v. By permission of the
British Library, London.
6.1 Queen Mary Psalter, early fourteenth century.
British Library Royal MS 2.B.VII, f. 51v. By
permission of the British Library, London.
6.2 Bible of Duke Borso d’Este, mid-fifteenth century.
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena, MS
V.G.12, f. 119v. By permission of the Ministero per
l Beni e le Attività Culturali.
8.1 The divine monochord, from Robert Fludd,
Utriusque cosmi historia, vol. 1 (1617), p. 90.
Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library,
London.
8.2 Man the microcosm, from Robert Fludd, Utriusque
cosmi historia, vol. 2 (1619), p. 275. Wellcome
Trust Medical Photographic Library, London.
9.1 The universe according to Nicolas Lefèvre de la
Boderie, from the opening to ‘Introduction sur
l’harmonie du monde’, in Guy Lefèvre de la
Boderie (trans.), L ’harmonie du monde (Paris,
1578).
10.1 Philip Ayres, Emblemata amatoria (London, 1683),
sigs. E3V-E4. By permission of the Folger
Shakespeare Library.
10.2 Jacob Cats, Proteus ofte Minnebeelden
(Amsterdam, 1627), p. 254. National Gallery of Art
Library, Washington DC.
viii LIST OF FIGURES
10.3 P. C. Hoofts, Minnezinnebeelden, in Werken
(Amsterdam, 1671), sig. Een. National Gallery of
Art Library, Washington DC. 229
10.4 Jean 1er Le Blond after Pieter van Mol, Omnia
vincit amor nec mucica vincit amorem ([Paris]
n.d.). By permission of the Bibliothèque Nationale
de France, Paris. 233
10.5 Interior lid of Giovanni Francesco Antegnati[a],
pentagonal virginal, 1537. Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, keyboard catalogue no. 2. 236
10.6
Gabriel Metsu, Cello Player. Buckingham Palace,
London. The Royal Collection © Her Majesty The
Queen. 238
11.1 Athanasius Kircher, Magnes sive de arte magnetica
(Rome, 1641), facing p. 874. Wellcome Trust
Photographic Medical Library, London. 258
12.1 Geographical distribution of cases of tarantism
discussed by eighteenth-century Spanish authors. 276
12.2 Representation of the biological cycle of the
tarantula by F. X. Cid, Tarantismo observado en
España (Madrid, 1787), p. 19. By permission of the
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid. 279
12.3 Music in F. X. Cid, Tarantismo observado en
España (Madrid, 1787). By permission of the
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid. 285
List of Contributors
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 León Sanz, University of Navarra, Pamplona
Karen Lüdtke, 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