Ancient music therapy
One of the first theoretical musical philosopher that did researches with strict Aristotelian method on therapeutic potential of music (for example on sick from epilepsy) in the fourth century BC was Aristosseno of Taranto in Italy, son of a student of Socrates, and famous for a series of writings of a musical (about Pythagorean model) as the "Elements of harmony", the "Rhythmic elements" and "On listening music".. in which the author claims the need for sensitive perception of music, which requires special attention with vigilant memory to compare the present sounds with those of the past and of the future, in order to hear what happens and remember what happened. For the Pythagoreans, the music was object of investigation and a tool for education, because the sounds and the relevant harmony can be translated into numbers from which we get a law of the number (depending on the length of the vibrating string), in which the number is the "substance" of the harmony music.
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Date: 24/06/2009
 article n°: 1006
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