Peculiar Attunements
Peculiar Attunements Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of the eighteenth century. Eighteenth-century critics…
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Peculiar Attunements
Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of the eighteenth century. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of the affects in their beholders. During that time the affects--or passions, as they were also called--formed a vital component of a mimetic model of the arts.
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
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