What was not a favorite subject of american artists in the mid-1800s?

a.indigo and cochineal

b.animal hides

c.silver and gold

e.cacao beans and sugarcane

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.