Because of the variables and the complexity of their interaction, the data assembled by descriptive musicology yield relatively few observable regularities. (Leonard B. Meyer)

Because of the variables and the complexity of their interaction, the data assembled by descriptive musicology yield relatively few observable regularities.

Leonard B. Meyer

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