"Sounding Bodies presents the ancient Greek connections between music and medicine, their reception leading to the "sonic turn" in the eighteenth century, new kinds of sonic intervention in psychic disorders and new biological applications of sound"--
"Sounding Bodies presents the ancient Greek connections between music and medicine, their reception leading to the "sonic turn" in the eighteenth century, new kinds of sonic intervention in psychic disorders and new biological applications of sound"--
Introduction 1 Part I: Musical Origins 13 1 Pythagorean Medicine 15 2 The Controversial Project 29 3 Musica Humana 37 4 Homage to Herophilus 53 5 Kepler's Harmonic Physiology 71 6 The Musical Disease 89 Part II: Sonic Turns 107 7 Vibrating Fibers 109 8 Rhythms of the Heart 133 9 Songs of the Blood 151 Part III: Sounding Minds 169 10 Music, Melancholia, and Mania 171 11 Composing the Crisis 189 12 Catalepsy and Catharsis 205 Part IV: Sounding Bodies 217 13 Flying in the Dark 219 14 Ultrasounding Bodies 233 15 Tuning the Nerves 247 16 Telephonic Connections 269 17 Listening to Neurons 279 18 Sonic and Rhythmic Knowledge 299 19 Echoes and Envoi 311 Appendix: Two Papers on Muscle Sound by Hermann von Helmholtz 325 Notes 329 References 361 Source and Illustration Credits 387 Acknowledgements 389 Index 391
Introduction 1 Part I: Musical Origins 13 1 Pythagorean Medicine 15 2 The Controversial Project 29 3 Musica Humana 37 4 Homage to Herophilus 53 5 Kepler's Harmonic Physiology 71 6 The Musical Disease 89 Part II: Sonic Turns 107 7 Vibrating Fibers 109 8 Rhythms of the Heart 133 9 Songs of the Blood 151 Part III: Sounding Minds 169 10 Music, Melancholia, and Mania 171 11 Composing the Crisis 189 12 Catalepsy and Catharsis 205 Part IV: Sounding Bodies 217 13 Flying in the Dark 219 14 Ultrasounding Bodies 233 15 Tuning the Nerves 247 16 Telephonic Connections 269 17 Listening to Neurons 279 18 Sonic and Rhythmic Knowledge 299 19 Echoes and Envoi 311 Appendix: Two Papers on Muscle Sound by Hermann von Helmholtz 325 Notes 329 References 361 Source and Illustration Credits 387 Acknowledgements 389 Index 391
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