This volume gathers together a cross-section of essays and book chapters dealing with the ways in which musicians and their music have been pressed into the ser
This book focuses on two main topics related to the essence of music, the first of which problematizes the ontological unity of music, philosophy and mathematic
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 mus
Music/Ideology is a response to the question: Must the practice of music analysis and music theory always reinscribe the ideology of aesthetic autonomy? And, if