...into motives, phrases, and Whole Figures H MH M ML nr -ii ' ixl < I \ Figure 11.3 i f^ Figure 11.4 sections. 'Metrical structure' expresses the intuition...and weak beats at a number of hierarchical levels. And so on. Diana Deutsch and John Feroe also suggest that people represent pitch sequences in tonal...

...account for the totality of the listener's musical intuitions. Such a goal is obviously premature. In the present study we will for the most part restrict ourselves...grouping and metrical structure. Prolongational reduction assigns to the pitches a hierarchy that expresses harmonic and melodic tension and relaxation, continuity...

...description of metered music. 3 Meter in Strict Sense According to Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983, p.8): "Metrical structure expresses the intuition that the...and weak beats at a number of hierarchical levels." This is more or less the definition adopted in most theories of musical meter. The main distinction...