The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: perspectives on music, emotions and well-being - Wiebke Thormahlen and James Kennaway

2. Music, mind and well-being in Antiquity - Francesco Pelosi

3. The regulative power of the harmony of the spheres in Medieval Latin, Arabic and Persian sources - Andrew Hicks

4. Girolamo Cardano on music as a remedy "for the troubles that result for the misery of human misfortune" - Jacomien Prins

5. Melancholy, music and the passions in English culture around 1600 - Penelope Gouk

6. Musical glasses, metal reeds, and broken hearts: two cases of melancholia treated by new musical instruments - Carmel Raz and Stanley Finger

7. Framing emotional responses to music: music-making and social well-being in early nineteenth-century England - Wiebke Thormahlen

8. The use of music as a treatment for Gemuthskrankheit - Andrea Korenjak

9. Anna O.’s nervous cough: historical perspectives on neurological approaches to music - James Kennaway

10. "What is this music doing to me?": psychological experiments on the effects of music on mood in the first half of the twentieth century - Garcia Garcia Quinones

11. Music, body and emotion between well-being, manipulation and torture in the twentieth century - Juliane Brauer

12. Emotional cccounts of musical experience and musical object: an introduction to the current debate on the relationship between music and emotion - Elvira Di Bona

13. Understanding music, mind and emotion from the perspective of psychoneuroimmunology - Daisy Fancourt

14. Approaches to music, well-being and emotion from psychology: theory, method and evidence - Alexandra Lamont

15. Please please me! The pleasure of music in the brain - Ole A. Heggli, Morten L. Kringelbach and Peter Vuust

16. Three controversies of music and emotions: neuroscience and psychology of sadness and music - Tuomas Eerola

17. Why we listen to sad-sounding music: philosopical perspectives, psychological functions and underlying brain mechanisms - Liila Taruffi and Stefan Koelsch

18. Music and language expressiveness: When emotional character does not suffice: the dimension of expressiveness in the cognitive processing of music and language - Ariadne Loutrari and Marjorie Lorch

19. Musical engagement and well-being in the early years of life - Beatriz Ilari

20. Music, emotion and learning - Jennie Henley

21. Music, cognition and well-being in the ageing - Susan Hallam

22. The goodness of small things: why we need longitudinal and ethnographic studies of music in dementia care - Mariko Hara and Tia DeNora