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Sounding Bodies de Peter Pesic

Sounding Bodies

Autor Peter Pesic
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2022
"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"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780262046350
ISBN-10: 0262046350
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 230 x 205 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Editura: MIT Press Ltd

Notă biografică

Peter Pesic, writer, pianist, and scholar, is Director of the Science Institute, Musician-in-Residence, and Tutor Emeritus at St. John’s College, Santa Fe. He is the author of Labyrinth, Seeing Double, Abel’s Proof, Sky in a Bottle, Music and the Making of Modern Science, and Polyphonic Minds, all published by the MIT Press.
 

Cuprins

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