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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.

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• List of Figures(p. vii)
• List of Contributors(p. ix)
• Acknowledgements(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Musical Solutions: Past and Present in Music Therapy(p. 4)
• Part I Ancient Literate Traditions
• Commentary on Part I, with a Note on China(p. 43)
• 2 Music Therapy in Antiquity(p. 51)
• 3 Jewish and Muslim Traditions of Music Therapy(p. 69)
• 4 Music Therapy: Some Possibilities in the Indian Tradition(p. 84)
• Part II Medieval Europe
• Commentary on Part II, with a Note on the Early Middle Ages(p. 103)
• 5 Music and Medicine in the Thirteenth Century(p. 109)
• 6 Music Therapy in the Later Middle Ages: The Case of Hugo van der Goes(p. 120)
• Part III Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
• Commentary on Part III, with a Note on Paracelsus(p. 147)
• 7 Marsilio Ficino, the Second Orpheus(p. 154)
• 8 Music, Melancholy, and Medical Spirits in Early Modern Thought(p. 173)
• 9 Curing Man and the Cosmos: The Power of Music in French Renaissance Poetry(p. 195)
• 10 Musical Treatments for Lovesickness: The Early Modern Heritage(p. 213)
• Part IV Tarantism
• Commentary on Part IV, with a Note on the Origins of Tarantism(p. 249)
• 11 Ritualized Illness and Music Therapy: Views of Tarantism in the Kingdom of Naples(p. 255)
• 12 Medical Theories of Tarantism in Eighteenth-Century Spain(p. 273)
• 13 Tarantism in Contemporary Italy: The Tarantula's Dance Reviewed and Revived(p. 293)
• Part V Modern Currents
• Commentary on Part V, with Notes on Nineteenth-Century America and on Mesmerism and Theosophy(p. 315)
• 14 Music as Cause and Cure of Illness in Nineteenth-Century Europe(p. 338)
• 15 Shamanism, Music, and the Soul Train(p. 353)
• 16 The Music Therapy Profession in Modern Britain(p. 375)
• Index(p. 395)

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Although there is an abundance of literature on the practice and theory of music therapy, there is a dearth of books on its history. Originating in a 1997 conference at Royal Holloway College, University of London, the essays in this collection reflect high scholarly writing. Contributors are from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, musicology, and history, and one is a practicing music therapist. The volume is neither teleological nor a history text, but it claims to lay the groundwork for such. It does provide a cross section of essays about specific facets of music therapy's history. Most essays are historical in approach, with chapters on the musical treatment of lovesickness, tarantism, and shamanism. Issues discussed include the Mozart effect and the ancientness of the connection between music and medicine. Modern music therapy needs a history; these essays are a first step in that direction. What is now needed is a volume that would fit into the "Prentice-Hall History of Music Series." Graduate students through professionals. ; University of North Texas

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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