Leonard Meyer's foundational account of musical meaning as arising from the creation, frustration, and satisfaction of musical expectations — grounded in Gestalt psychology.
Music generates meaning through learned patterns of expectation; delayed or denied resolutions produce emotional tension; the cognitive-affective response to music is therefore a response to the structure of expectation, not to extra-musical associations.
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