What is emotionality?
a. the ability of a person to get along with others
b. the degree to which someone tends to be positive or negative
c. the number of things a person tries to accomplish at once
d. the relative rigidity of an individual's beliefs?

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.