This chapter proposes to examine the way music operates as a link between the two main functions of English spas, that of centres of pleasure and of places of healing. In a context in which necessity and amusement were inextricably intermeshed, and in which ailment and entertainment would inevitably go hand in hand, Degott suggests that music could be seen as a curative and restorative element, able not only to please the senses but also to bring spiritual and physical comfort. It is his contention that English spa towns offered a form of music therapy inasmuch as music, for all its potentially invasive power, was essentially perceived as conducive to improvements in spiritual, but also physical, health.