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"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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Melody, rhythm, timbre, harmony, and the like.

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.

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