Emotion and Meaning in Music

Meyer, L. B. (1956). Emotion and Meaning in Music. University of Chicago Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1956

Link

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo28551887.html

Cited from

art_aesthetics, music_musicology

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Tension And Release
  • Music. Harmonic tension (the dominant chord) resolving to the tonic; suspensions resolving down by step; long melodic build-ups to a climactic peak; deceptive cadences as withheld resolution — formalized from Schenker through Meyer as the basic narrative unit of tonal music.

    This sourceMusical affect arises from the arousal, sustaining, and resolution of expectation — the build-up and discharge of tension as the basic unit of musical meaning.

• Unity & Variety
  • Kepes (1944) shows visual coherence emerges from consistent structural principles and expressive variation

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