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Peculiar attunements : how affect theory turned musical / Roger Mathew Grant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, Roger Mathew, author.
- Series:
- Fordham scholarship online.
- Fordham scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doctrine of the affections.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Emotions in music.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (165 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Eighteenth-century and opera and the mimetic Affektenlehre
- Comic opera : Mimesis exploded
- "Sonate, que me veux-tu" and other dilemmas of instrumental music
- The attunement Affektenlehre
- Coda : Affect after the Affektenlehre.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2020).
- This edition previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9780823290413
- 0823290417
- 9780823288076
- 0823288072
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