Peculiar AttunementsPeculiar 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 affectsor passions, as they were also calledformed 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