Music therapeutically action through ancient greek writings

Abstract

This paper has the title “Music therapeutically action through ancient Greek writings” and it treats the belief of music therapeutically action the way it appears to relate reports in the ancient Greek writings and selectively the evolution of this belief to the earliest years, from 4rth century till the establishment’s age as a science or at least as a scientific method. This historical retrospection proves that the course of music in relation to healing evolved (since Hippocrates and Plato’s time and maybe even before that) to a scientific field with deductions based on studies of that time and free to a large extent (if not completely) from magical beliefs and mythic remainders, and managed to win, through the antiquity, Medicine’s and Philosophy’s respect and appreciation. This retrospection also proves the birth of music therapy’s science, as ascertained through literatures writings that music had played in antiquity a significant role on intimate terms and interdependence with tw ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/18070
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/18070
ND
18070
Alternative title
Η μουσικοθεραπευτική πράξη μέσα από τα αρχαιοελληνικά κείμενα
Author
Ντζιούνη, Γαρυφαλλιά (Πατρώνυμο: Ε.)
Date
2008
Degree Grantor
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Committee members
Κώστιος Απόστολος
Σπυρίδης Χαράλαμπος
Ψαρουδάκης Στυλιανός
Κάβουρας Παύλος
Μαλιαράς Νικόλαος
Παπαθανασίου Ιωάννης
Πελεγρίνης Θεοδόσιος
Discipline
Humanities and the ArtsArts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
Keywords
Music; Magic; Medicine; Paeans; Incantation; Music instruments, Therapy; Flute; Salpinx; Lambici; Greece, Ancient
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
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