Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Long History of Neurology and Music

Chapter 2 (Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) ‘Pictures in the Mind’: A Personal Account

Chapter 3 Music and the Nervous System in Eighteenth-Century British Medical Thought

Chapter 5 Music Therapy in Eighteenth-Century Spain: Perspectives and Critiques

Chapter 6 ‘Subsiding Passions’ and the Polite Arts of Healing: Music and Images of the Medical Profession in ‘Moderate Enlightenment’

Chapter 7 Music as a Tool in the Development of Nineteenth-Century Neurology

Chapter 8 Origin Stories of Listening, Melody and Survival at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 9 Physical Distortion, Emotion and Subjectivity: Musical Virtuosity and Body Anxiety