Musical Sympathy and Occult Knowledge
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Here Kircher states: 'The tarenti in fact employ certain fixed melodies, which they therefore call a tarantella, because it might be disposed especially to affecting the tarantism, to which it is approximately adapted in that melody which you see in the figure here'.
Author: Athanasius Kircher
Title: Magnes sive De arte magnetica opus tripartitum [Magnets and the magnetic art] (Cologne, 1643)
Shelfmark: D.20.32
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