7 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British musicologist and BBC producer who argued in The Language of Music that tonal music has a vocabulary of emotionally expressive musical figures — specific melodic and harmonic patterns reliably express specific emotions.
Leonard Meyer's foundational account of musical meaning as arising from the creation, frustration, and satisfaction of musical expectations — grounded in Gestalt psychology.
American music theorist who developed the implication-realization model of melodic expectation — a formal account of how melodic intervals create implications for continuation.
Jerrold Northrop Moore was an American musicologist and biographer who produced the definitive life of Edward Elgar, 'Edward Elgar: A Creative Life' (1984).
American musicologist and aesthetician who developed an account of musical meaning based on the psychology of expectation — music means by creating, delaying, and resolving expectations.
German philosopher, sociologist, and musicologist who was the most uncompromising critical theorist of the Frankfurt School — developing a negative dialectics that refuses all affirmative synthesis.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian composer of the Classical period whose prodigious output across opera, symphony, and chamber music is widely considered the pinnacle of Western musical achievement.