Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

Music and Dance Therapy
347 ZULATTI, Giovanni Francesco. Della Forza della Musica
nelle Passioni, nei Costumi, e nelle Malattie, e dell’Uso medico del
Ballo. Venezia, Lorenzo Baseggio, 1787. £900
8vo, pp. 69, marginal stain to Wrst signature, not touching text,
marginal tear to pp. 66; uncut in the original buV wrappers.
First edition, rare, of one of the earliest works on the beneWcial eVects of
music on mental, cognitive, and physical health – early music therapy.
Zulatti reviews classical and medical literature for information on the emotional
impact of music, and cites from Greek and Roman literature, to contemporary
authors, such as d’Alembert, Haller, and Tissot. He also points
to the trance-inducing faculty of music, such as the Tarantola dance. He
attributes the beneWcial, and especially calming eVect of music to the regular
beat. A further section is devoted to the study of melody, and its eVects on
the body.
In the second half Zulatti concentrates on the beneWcial eVects of dancing,
which combines the calming or reviving inXuence of music with physical
exercise and gymnastics. This is particularly appropriate for those in
sedentary occupations, or women who do not favour vigorous exercise.
Zulatti warns against excessively fast dancing, which in pregnant women
can lead to premature birth.
Zulatti, a medical doctor, also wrote on the plague.
RLIN and OCLC list a copy at New York Public Library; not in Blake.
Selective Subject Index
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
Accounting 2, 41, 62, 73, 87, 95, 97, 98, 130, 174, 244, 255
Aesthetics 22, 31, 45, 56, 59, 78, 205
Agriculture 27, 33, 68, 71, 81, 96, 107, 108, 116, 123, 133, 145,
187, 235, 244, 281, 287
Americana 4, 52, 80, 123, 126, 127, 242, 246, 272, 310, 334
Animal Language 51, 338
Art & Architecture 8, 15, 31, 290
Bibliography 148, 219, 220, 260
Book-Collecting 10, 53, 86, 99, 122, 132, 148, 200, 214, 219
Biography 139, 220, 265, 292, 329
Book History 188, 243, 248
Book of Secrets 8, 29, 322
Business 39, 65, 240
Calendar & Chronology 3, 28, 149, 251
Calligraphy & Writing 1, 54, 73, 304, 339
Colour Printing 66, 232
Crime & Punishment 23, 24, 310, 321
Dictionary 15, 156, 218, 219, 249, 256
Economics 18, 19, 20, 32, 104, 131, 136
Education 93, 94, 131, 162, 163, 164, 171, 185, 190, 208, 228,
254, 269, 330
Enlightenment 7, 9, 26, 31, 37, 38, 45, 56, 67, 78, 83, 140, 222,
224, 262
Europe 111, 159, 165, 166, 325
Fiction 30, 69, 91, 328
Food & Drink 68, 128, 176, 242, 283
French Revolution 2, 50, 52, 106, 124, 125, 204, 215, 216, 279
Gambling 141, 182
Health 5, 8, 100, 146, 180, 210, 225, 233, 242, 261, 278,
330, 347
History 40, 198, 211
Hunting 96, 108, 155, 340
Illustrated Books 1, 6, 60, 61, 78, 115, 128, 162, 163, 178, 319
Industry 14, 203, 246, 253, 289, 290, 305
Labour 77, 172
Language 9, 44, 89, 151, 206, 250
Language Teaching 70, 72, 153, 167, 177, 236, 237, 257, 313, 135, 136,
326
Law 3, 23, 24, 25, 36, 80, 94, 95, 110, 113, 118, 121,
124, 125, 145, 180, 181, 222, 259, 291, 294, 295,
296, 297, 312, 325
Marriage 25, 183, 186, 197, 217, 343
Mathematics 61, 75, 235, 331
Military 76, 212, 279, 341
Money Lending 118, 245
Music, Theatre, & Ballet 12, 83, 85, 142, 151, 202, 278, 347
Philosophy 75, 92, 117, 119, 135, 262, 263, 264, 277, 284, 285,
307
Poetry 6, 78, 115, 319
Political Economy 6, 49, 58, 93, 119, 150, 154, 159, 160, 161, 209,
221, 241, 245, 262, 284, 285