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  2. Leonard B. Meyer - Wikipedia

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    Meyer used this basis to form a theory about music, combining musical expectations in a specific cultural context with emotion and meaning elicited. [1] His work went on to influence theorists both in and outside music, as well as providing a basis for cognitive psychology research into music and our responses to it.

  3. Aesthetics of music - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics of music is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty and taste in music, and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in music. [1] In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic organization.

  4. List of music theorists - Wikipedia

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    The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2007) Max (software), Pure Data: Philip Ewell: born 1966 Music Theory and the White Racial Frame (2020) Race in music, Russian and twentieth century music, as well as rap and hip hop [218] Ellie Hisama: Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon (2007)

  5. Musical analysis - Wikipedia

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    Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517010-5. Tovey, Donald Francis. 1978 [1935–1939]. Essays in Musical Analysis, 6 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. OCLC 912417. van Appeldorn, M.-J. 1966. "Stylistic Study of Claude Debussy's Opera Pelléas et Mélisande". Ph.D ...

  6. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...

  7. Milton Babbitt - Wikipedia

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    The original title was changed without his knowledge or permission by an editor at High Fidelity.] (1960). "Twelve-Tone Invariants as Compositional Determinants," The Musical Quarterly 46/2. (1961). "Set Structure as Compositional Determinant," Journal of Music Theory 5/1. (1965). "The Structure and Function of Musical Theory," College Music ...

  8. Heinrich Schenker - Wikipedia

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    Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was an Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis. [1] His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully explained in a three-volume series, Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (New Musical Theories and Phantasies), which included Harmony (1906), Counterpoint (1910 ...

  9. Philosophy of music - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy of music is the study of "fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it". [1] The philosophical study of music has many connections with philosophical questions in metaphysics and aesthetics.