Style and Music by Leonard B Meyer

Style and Music by Leonard B Meyer

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Style and Music by Leonard B Meyer

In this volume Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He seeks to explore why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others. Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of 19-century music. He shows explicitly how the beliefs and attitudes of Romanticism influenced the choices of composers from Beethoven to Mahler and into more recent times.
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ISBN 13 9780226521527
ISBN 10 0226521524
Title Style and Music
Author Leonard B Meyer
Series Emersion: Emergent Village Resources For Communities Of Faith
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 1997-03-15
Number of pages 385
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