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Emotion and meaning in music

Leonard B. Meyer

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Frontmatter
I. THEORY (page 1)
II. EXPECTATION AND LEARNING (page 43)
III. PRINCIPLES OF PATTERN PERCEPTION: THE LAW OF GOOD CONTINUATION (page 83)
IV. PRINCIPLES OF PATTERN PERCEPTION: COMPLETION AND CLOSURE (page 128)
V. PRINCIPLES OF PATTERN PERCEPTION: THE WEAKENING OF SHAPE (page 157)
VI. THE EVIDENCE: DEVIATION IN PERFORMANCE AND TONAL ORGANIZATION (page 197)
VII. THE EVIDENCE: SIMULTANEOUS AND SUCCESSIVE DEVIATION (page 233)
VIII. NOTE ON IMAGE PROCESSES, CONNOTATIONS, AND MOODS (page 256)
NOTES (page 273)
INDEX (page 295)

Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
JAAC	16.2 (Dec. 1957): 385-386	http://www.jstor.org/stable/427625
JMT	1.1 (Mar. 1957): 110-112	http://www.jstor.org/stable/843099
MAL	38.3 (Jul. 1957): 278-279	http://www.jstor.org/stable/730282
MQ	43.4 (Oct. 1957): 553-557	http://www.jstor.org/stable/740770
AANTH	59.5 (Oct. 1957): 940	http://www.jstor.org/stable/665899
MT	99.1380 (Feb. 1958): 82	http://www.jstor.org/stable/937584
NOT	14.2 (Mar. 1957): 253-255	http://www.jstor.org/stable/891717

Citable Link

Published: 1961

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

ISBN(s)

9780226521381 (hardcover)
9780226521374 (ebook)
9780226521398 (paper)

Subject

Music & Musicology