Rousseau als Musiker (Berlin, 1884) and enlarge upon Samuel Baud-Bovy’s musicologically well informed but less theoretically focused

Jean-Jacques Rousseau et la musique (Neuchâtel, 1988), especially now that most of his writings on the subject are accessible as separate volumes of the principal modern editions of his works, in both French and English. Philip Robinson’s

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Doctrine of the Arts (Berne, 1984) is particularly helpful on the

Dictionnaire de musique

and certain musical themes throughout Rousseau’s writings in general, which are also treated at some length in the fourth chapter and appendix of my

Rousseau on Society,

Writings (New York, 1987). Michael O’Dea in

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Music, Illusion and Desire (London and New York, 1995) considers how the passionate inflections of the human voice described in Rousseau’s early texts on music were articulated in the transports of imagination of his fictional and autobiographical works. On the subject of botany, excellent as is the commentary of Gagnebin in his edition of Rousseau’s

Lettres sur la botanique (Paris, 1962), Jansen’s

Rousseau als Botaniker (Berlin, 1885), of which some fragments have been translated into English by Sir Gavin de Beer in 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Botanist’,

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