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December 30, 2007 (aged 89) New York City, New York, U.S. Education. Columbia University (BA, MA) University of Chicago (PhD) Leonard B. Meyer (January 12, 1918 – December 30, 2007) was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in music, and of compositional analysis. [1]
The psychology of music preference is the study of the psychological factors behind peoples' different music preferences. One study found that after researching through studies from the past 50 years, there are more than 500 functions for music. [ 1 ] Music is heard by people daily in many parts of the world, and affects people in various ways ...
Music psychology is a field of research with practical relevance for many areas, including music performance, composition, education, criticism, and therapy, as well as investigations of human attitude, skill, performance, intelligence, creativity, and social behavior. Music psychology can shed light on non-psychological aspects of musicology ...
Gender, race, and sexuality in music theory. Popular music [219] Suzannah Clark: born 1969 Music theory and natural order from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century (2001) Franz Schubert, history of music theory, medieval music [220] Dmitri Tymoczko: born 1969 A Geometry of Music (2010) Proposed framework for considering tonality [221]
Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. [1] According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the means of answering directly the question 'How does it work?'". [2] The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to ...
William Caplin. William E. Caplin (born 1948) is an American music theorist who lives and works in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he is a James McGill Professor at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. Caplin served as president of the Society for Music Theory from 2005 to 2007 and was its vice-president from 2001 to 2003. [ 1 ]
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
978-0-19-516979-9. The Oxford History of Western Music is a narrative history from the "earliest notations " (taken to be around the eighth century) to the late twentieth century. It was written by the American musicologist Richard Taruskin. Published by Oxford University Press in 2005, it is a six-volume work on the various significant periods ...