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2013
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Celestial horizon Apparent horizon Real horizon Sensible horizon Tarentism Show business Musical therapy Musicotherapy Music--Therapeutic use Serious music Musical compositions Art music Musical works Classical music Western music (Western countries) Art music, Western Western art music Case Ethnography Races of man Social anthropology Cultural anthropology UnderstandingCiter ce document
Camilla Cavicchi, « La scena di iatromusica nella Phonurgia Nova di Athanasius Kircher », HAL-SHS : histoire de l'art, ID : 10670/1.9dtqdb
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With the aim of deepening our knowledge of tarantism’s iconographic tradition, the contribution studies the scene of the Typus Tarantiacorum Saltantium published by Athanasius Kircher within his Phonurgia Nova (1673). With this image Kircher intended to offer a visual contribution to the understanding of the powerful effects of music. Differently from other mythical narratives of music therapy, the case of tarantism allowed him to concretely demonstrate the effectiveness of the musical method. In the iatromusical scene from his Phonurgia Nova, though, characters are represented not in a realistic context, but rather in a mythical-Arcadic dimension. Kircher may have made this choice with the scope of legitimating the folk tradition, by projecting it into the horizon of antiquity.