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Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and problems in affect theory's history.
List of contents
Notes on Orthography and Translation | vii
Introduction | 1
1 Eighteenth-Century Opera and the Mimetic
Affektenlehre | 29
2 Comic Opera: Mimesis Exploded | 61
3 "Sonate, que me veux-tu?" and Other Dilemmas of Instrumental Music | 86
4 The Attunement
Affektenlehre | 108
Coda: Affect after the
Affektenlehre | 131
Acknowledgments | 143
Bibliography | 147
Index | 161
About the author
Roger Mathew Grant is Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. He is the author of
Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era (Oxford), which won the 2016 Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar Award.
Summary
Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and problems in affect theory’s history.
