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.
The Language of Music: identifies recurring tonal patterns that express specific emotional states across Western music — a system of musical semantics based on empirical survey of the repertoire.
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