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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.

Table 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

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 3 March 2020
      ISBN-13 9780823288069
      978-0823288069
      ISBN-10 0823288064
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary theory Entertainment Theory of music and musicology Psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table 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

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