Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to Affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music Theory of the eighteenth century.
But music caused a problem for such theories, since it wasn\'t appar.
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.
Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to Affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music Theory of the eighteenth century