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.
Emotion and Meaning in Music: musical meaning arises when expected resolutions are delayed or denied — the tension between expectation and realization is the source of musical affect. Later developed a theory of style in Explaining Music.
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