Peculiar Attunements

How Affect Theory Turned Musical

AvRoger Mathew Grant

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of the eighteenth century. During that time the affects—or passions, as they were also called—formed a vital component of a mimetic model of the arts. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of the affects in their beholders. But music caused a problem for such theories, since it wasn't apparent that musical tones could imitate anything with any dependability, beyond the rare thunderclap or birdcall.Struggling to articulate how it was that music managed to move its auditors without imitation, certain theorists developed a new affect theory crafted especially for music, postulating that music's physical materiality as sound vibrated the nerves of listeners and attuned them to the affects through sympathetic resonance. This was a theory of affective attunement that bypassed the entire structure of representation, offering a non-discursive, corporeal alternative. It is a pendant to contemporary theories of affect, and one from which they have much to learn. Inflecting our current intellectual moment through eighteenth-century music theory and aesthetics, this book offers a reassessment of affect theory's common systems and processes. It offers a new way of thinking through affect dialectically, drawing attention to patterns and problems in affect theory that we have been given to repeating. Finally, taking a cue from eighteenth-century theory, it gives renewed attention to the objects that generate affects in subjects.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:268 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823287741

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Roger Mathew Grant is Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. His first book, Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era (Oxford, 2014) won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory.

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on Orthography and Translation viiIntroduction 11 Eighteenth-Century Opera and the Mimetic Affektenlehre 292 Comic Opera: Mimesis Exploded 613 "Sonate, que me veux-tu?" and Other Dilemmas of Instrumental Music 864 The Attunement Affektenlehre 108Coda: Affect after the Affektenlehre 131Acknowledgments 143Bibliography 147Index 161

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