Sample Magic 101 Vintage Vocals Twisted Religion 18
We have already seen how some of these ideas affected both Plato and Aristotle in their understanding of music and morals via the emotions. By the time of the Renaissance's renewed interest in things Greek, we find that many thinkers tried to integrate all knowledge and arts with humankind. Medicine was often linked with religion, cult, magic and music because of the belief in the correspondence among things. One can read about music which allegedly mitigates pain, restores hearing to the deaf, heals vermin bites, and cures the insane.[69] The great surgeon Ambrose Parei mentions that music can cure spider bites, sciatica and gout.[70] Renaissance doctors thought that music was an aid to preventive medicine such as resistance to the epidemics of the time. Since anger, excessive sorrow, and worry must be shunned as the grounds for certain diseases, one must live…