La meloterapia en el pensamiento y la obra de Isidoro de Sevilla

Abstract

Isidore of Seville (ca. 565-633), Father and Doctor of the Church, is considered one of the greatest encyclopaedists of Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages. Among the many topics he dealt with was music and, within this, its medical or healing power, a topic that enjoyed a great literary tradition in Classical Antiquity due, in large part, to the diffusion of its deep philosophical-musical roots, fundamentally of a Pythagorean and Platonic nature. This article locates and analyzes for the first time all the Isidorian reflections on this topic distributed throughout several works of the bishop of Seville. In order to do this, the classical and patristic tradition from which they originate will be used, taking also into account the rest of the Isidorian musical thought.