Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital''s institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response t

By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Sp

This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.

Challenges the longstanding perception that modernist composers made art, not money, and that those who made money somehow failed to make art.Patrons have long