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Music & Medical Humanities Database질병과 장애, 고통의 음악학 (2026년 봄)

A collaborative database of how music represents illness, disability, suffering, and death, built by students of Spring 2026 and analyzed across 99 entries, their cross-references, and their funeral-music reflections.

Genre of Source Work

Film dominates, but students reached across opera, musical theatre, art song, K-drama, and games.

Disease & Disability Clusters

Mapped from each entry's ICD code and description. Entries may belong to more than one cluster.

Works by Decade of Origin

From an 18th-century concerto to 2024 webtoons; most works cluster in the 1990s to 2010s.

Browse the Database
The Cross-Reference Network

Each link is a connection one student drew to another student's entry: themes, diseases, or musical strategies they recognized across works. Larger coral nodes are the most-cited hubs. Drag nodes to explore; hover for detail; click to open on GitHub.

Hub (cited 3+ times)
Cited work
Linking entry
My Funeral Music: Student Reflections

As a medical-humanities exercise, each student chose a piece for their own funeral and explained why. The collection turns an academic course into a meditation on mortality.

질병과 장애, 고통의 음악학 · Musicology of Disease, Disability, and Suffering · Spring 2026
Hee Seng Kye, Ph.D. · Hanyang University · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0