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- ISBN 9780226521527
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 1997
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this volume Leonard Meyer proposes a theory of style and style change that relates the choices made by composers to the constraints of psychology, cultural context, and musical traditions. He seeks to explore why, out of the abundance of compositional possibilities, composers choose to replicate some patterns and neglect others. Meyer devotes the latter part of his book to a sketch-history of 19-century music. He shows explicitly how the beliefs and attitudes of Romanticism influenced the choices of composers from Beethoven to Mahler and into more recent times.
