Music and the Pursuit of Truth
Caroline Palmėr · Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2008
I had the good fortune to experience Leonard Meyer’s way of thinking in several major events. The first was through his books; I was especially influenced in my own work by Music, the Arts, and Ideas for its discussion of how music performance reflects the musical mind.The second was during my year at the Center forAdvanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, where I joined him and five other musicologists and psychologists, led by Carol Krumhansl, for many thought-provoking discussions [...]