Donald Ferguson

American music theorist

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In music: Referentialists and nonreferentialists
…in the Arts (1946) and Donald Ferguson in Music as Metaphor (1960). Meyer made the observation that while most referentialists are expressionists, not all expressionists are referentialists. He made the useful distinction between absolute expressionists and referential expressionists and identified his own position as “formalist–absolute expressionist.” In acknowledging that music…
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