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SUMMARY:The Physiologist at the Opera: Claude Perrault and the Politics of
  Pleasure in the Ancien Régime - Professor Veit Erlmann (Butler School of
  Music\, University of Texas at Austin)
DTSTART:20100222T170000Z
DTEND:20100222T190000Z
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CONTACT:Sam Mather
DESCRIPTION:Professor Erlmann will talk about  Du bruit\, a text written i
 n 1680 by Claude Perrault and in which he advanced his “animist” criti
 que of Cartesian mechanism.  This text\, together with several minor piece
 s by Perrault on opera\,  suggests that Perrault was one of the first mode
 rn theorists who argued for a new\, more subjective type of aurality. This
  aurality might alter the prevailing interpretations of “Baroque” musi
 c in terms of “Affektenlehre” or Cartesianism.\n\nOpen to all. No regi
 stration required
LOCATION:CRASSH\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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