Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
(1712–1778)
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUESJEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU [* 1712-† 1778] The multi-faceted career of Jean-Jacques Rousseau was enlivened through the completion of several music essays and two large lexicographical projects, which in turn add interest to our study of eighteenth-century theory and aesthetics. Reared on the harmonic formulations of RAMEAU, Rousseau entered the French capital hoping to dazzle the Académie with his notational system (which amounted to rows of Arabic numerals…