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In 'pure' instrumental music, the strategies chosen by composers to create unity were responsive to the tenets of Romanticism... Even in the absence of an explicit program, motivic continuity created a kind of narrative coherence. Like the chief character in a novel, the 'fortunes' of the main motive—its development, variation, and encounters with other 'protagonists'—served as a source of constancy throughout the unfolding of the musical process.

Leonard B. Meyer

Because of the variables and the complexity of their interaction, the data assembled by descriptive musicology yield relatively few observable regularities.

Leonard B. Meyer

Leonard B. Meyer

Leonard B. Meyer

Born: January 12, 1918

Died: December 30, 2007 (aged 89)

Bio: Leonard B. Meyer was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in music, and compositional analysis.

Known for:

Emotion and Meaning in Music (1954)
Style and music (1989)
Music, the arts, and ideas (1967)
The Rhythmic Structure of Music (1960)
The Spheres of Music (2000)

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