Leonard B. Meyer, a pioneering musicologist whose 1956 book, “Emotion and Meaning in Music,” remains one of the most significant scholarly works in the field of music cognition, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.
Leonard B. Meyer, a pioneering musicologist whose 1956 book, “Emotion and Meaning in Music,” remains one of the most significant scholarly works in the field of music cognition, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.