"Because of the variables and the complexity of their interaction, the data assembled by descriptive musicology yield relatively few observable regularities."
— Leonard B. Meyer

January 1, 1970

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"Universalism and Relativism in the Study of Ethnic music", Ethnomusicology 4, no. 2:49-54 (1960); reprinted in Reading in Ethnomusicology, p. 270-71.