The british benefited from their mercantilist relationship with the American colonists primairly by

by buying raw materials from the colonists and making them into finished products, then selling them back to the colonists.

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.