"In 'pure' instrumental music, the strategies chosen by composers to create unity were responsive to the tenets of Romanticism...Even in the absence of an explicit program, motivic continuity created a kind of narrative coherence. Like the chief character in a novel, the 'fortunes' of the main motive--its development, variation, and encounters with other 'protagonists'--served as a source of constancy throughout the unfolding of the musical process."
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Leonard B. Meyer
Leonard B. Meyer (January 12, 1918 β December 30, 2007) was a musicologist, composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in Music, and compositional analysis. Best known for his various musical theories expressed in his book Emotion and Meaning in Music and Style and Music: Theory, History, and Ideology.
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