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What can our ears really perceive when music deviates from a norm whose codes are no longer our own? Geoffroy Jourdain leads Les Cris de Paris in an exploration of the “strange harmonies” characteristic of the late Renaissance, as in the microtonal works of Nicola Vicentino (1511-1575), which divides the octave into 31 notes in a nod to Ancient Greek …