James Kennaway, Bad Vibrations. The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease

The tell-tale front cover of the book is unsurprisingly illustrated by a famous caricature of Wagner—held responsible for a variety of music-induced troubles, as is shown further on—by celebrated nineteenth-century French artist André Gill. The picture itself, and the way it is used as a frontispie...

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Autor principal: Vincent-Arnaud, Nathalie
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Miranda 2013
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Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:The tell-tale front cover of the book is unsurprisingly illustrated by a famous caricature of Wagner—held responsible for a variety of music-induced troubles, as is shown further on—by celebrated nineteenth-century French artist André Gill. The picture itself, and the way it is used as a frontispiece, both call to mind the detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch which has been chosen to introduce La Mélophobie littéraire (Frédéric Sounac, dir., La Mélophobie littéraire...