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Music, the Arts, and Ideas (edit title/settings)

Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture

by Leonard B. Meyer (Author) (edit contributors)

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Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on... read more

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I have dealt elsewhere at some length with the central importance of the arousal and subsequent inhibition of expectant tendencies in the shaping of musical experience.

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