“Nourishment of the Soul” – Music, Medicine, and Food in Ottoman Culture

The phrase “music is the nourishment of the soul” reflects a century-old complex of musical, medical, and astrological thinking; integrated notions of celestial and terrestrial harmony, humoral medicine and ethos theory that reach back to Ancient Greece. Adopted into Islamicate philosophy, those the...

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Main Author: Haug, Judith I. 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Oriens
Year: 2023, Volume: 51, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 38-70
Further subjects:B Edvar
B Astrology
B Ottoman music history
B Music therapy
B Music Theory
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Summary:The phrase “music is the nourishment of the soul” reflects a century-old complex of musical, medical, and astrological thinking; integrated notions of celestial and terrestrial harmony, humoral medicine and ethos theory that reach back to Ancient Greece. Adopted into Islamicate philosophy, those theories were combined with a modal system that amplified them. The present paper traces them in various Ottoman texts with the aim of understanding how concepts of music theory, astrology, medicine, and food interacted. A crucial question is whether music theory sources can be brought into a relationship with descriptions of musical (therapy) practices in hospitals.
ISSN:1877-8372
Contains:Enthalten in: Oriens
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18778372-12340020