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1918–2007 United States
Leonard B. Meyer (January 12, 1918 – December 30, 2007) was a musicologist, composer, author, and philosopher.
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Melody, rhythm, timbre, harmony, and the like.
"Because of the variables and the complexity of their interaction, the data assembled by descriptive musicology yield relatively few observable regularities."
Just as parameters within a culture are distinguished from one another because they are governed by somewhat different constraints, so it is with the parameters of music: melody, harmony, timbre, etc., are more or less independent variables.