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Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Musical Solutions: Past and Present in Music Therapy -- Part I: Ancient Literate Traditions -- Commentary on Part I, with a Note on China -- Chapter 2. Music Therapy in Antiquity -- Chapter 3. Jewish and Muslim Traditions of Music Therapy -- Chapter 4. Music Therapy: Some Possibilities in the Indian Tradition -- Part II: Medieval Europe -- Commentary on Part II, with a Note on the Early Middle Ages -- Chapter 5. Music and Medicine in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 6. Music Therapy in the Later Middle Ages: The Case of Hugo van der Goes -- Part III: Renaissance and Early Modern Europe -- Commentary on Part III, with a Note on Paracelsus -- Chapter 7. Marsilio Ficino, the Second Orpheus -- Chapter 8. Music, Melancholy, and Medical Spirits in Early Modem Thought -- Chapter 9. Curing Man and the Cosmos: The Power of Music in French Renaissance Poetry -- Chapter 10. Musical Treatments for Lovesickness: The Early Modem Heritage -- Part IV: Tarantism -- Commentary on Part IV, with a Note on the Origins of Tarantism -- Chapter 11. Ritualized Illness and Music Therapy: Views of Tarantism in the Kingdom of Naples -- Chapter 12. Medical Theories of Tarantism in Eighteenth-Century Spain -- Chapter 13. Tarantism in Contemporary Italy: The Tarantula's Dance Reviewed and Revived -- Part V: Modern Currents -- Commentary on Part V, with Notes on Nineteenth-Century America and on Mesmerism and Theosophy -- Chapter 14. Music as Cause and Cure of Illness in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- Chapter 15. Shamanism, Music, and the Soul Train -- Chapter 16. The Music Therapy Profession in Modem Britain -- Index