Explaining Music: Essays and Explorations

by Leonard B. Meyer

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Genres: Music

389 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Michael Curtis]

Quoted from http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/as-sa... a research paper: Differential weighting and classification constituted the most vital contribution
of Explaining Music. The heart of the book (chapter 7, 131-241) is a
catalogue of six diverse “melodic structures,” each of which intermingled
natural and learned principles in a different way.