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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.

Affect theorists and musicologists have been waiting for a book like this for a very long time, and we are lucky to get it from a thinker as clear-sighted as Grant. With its unparalleled lucidity, and lively, nimble prose, Peculiar Attunements promises to be an instant classic in the study of affect and emotion."-Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago"Why is contemporary affect theory suffused with words like resonance, reverberation, tuning, vibr...

Maintains a distinctive focus on meter and rhythm within the history of music theory~Includes an in-depth discussion on a rarely-studied body of theory on tempo~Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the history of music theory through inclusion of studies on the history of aesthetics, mathematics, and natural philosophy~Pioneers a new approach to analysis that reflects changing concepts in intellectual history~Draws on a unique c...

Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the interdependent theories of time and meter that prevailed in the fields of music and science between 1500 and 1830.