Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Music, Illusion and Desire

''...discusses virtually all the musical writings which figure in this tome of the Oeuvres completes and may even be read as a companion volume, providing a key to the understanding of its various texts...O''Dea''s vividly textured and finely nuanced reading of Rousseau''s musical imagination plainly does complement the Pleiade collection in two striking ways...it offers a general interpretation o...