A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, reissue, with a new preface

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MIT Press, 3 jun 1996 - 384 páginas
A search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.

This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its original publication in 1983, models music understanding from the perspective of cognitive science.The point of departure is a search for the grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics.The theory, which is illustrated with numerous examples from Western classical music, relates the aural surface of a piece to the musical structure unconsciously inferred by the experienced listener. From the viewpoint of traditional music theory, it offers many innovations in notation as well as in the substance of rhythmic and reductional theory.

 

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Musical Universals
4
and Linguistic
11
2 Possible Formal Approaches to Reduction
111
2 TimeSpan Trees and Metrical Structure
128
The Analytic 6 4 Details of Cadential Reduction
138
2 TimeSpan Reduction WellFormedness Rules
152
of TimeSpan 7 3 Preference Rules Within Phrases
159
7 4 Structural Accents of Groups
167
The Analytic 8 4 A Secondary Notation
201
2 Prolongational Reduction WellFormedness Rules
213
9 4 Prolongational Reduction Preference Rules
220
Notes
333
Rule Index
345
Bibliography
353
Index
361
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2 Preliminaries to Prolongational Trees
183

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Sobre el autor (1996)

Frd Lerdahl is Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University.

Ray Jackendoff is Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy and Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of many books, including Foundations of Language.

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