A Generative Theory of Tonal Music by Fred Lerdahl, Ray Jackendoff

A Generative Theory of Tonal Music



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Format: djvu
Page: 372
ISBN: 026262107X, 9780585375885
Publisher: MIT Press


Celebrating 25 years of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's A generative theory of tonal music. When he published the book in 1983, his theories were not popular; 25 years later, they are now standard. Each of these works has suggested some interesting ideas to me. In fact, it was this lecture that inspired Lerdahl and Jackendoff to write A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Sep 15, 1999 pclima@ufba.br bewertung 5,0/5,0: This book is a turning point in XXth century music theory.It admits "surface salience" as an important musical attribute (chapter 5), distinguishing it from the "reductional importance" of events. His first, A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, is widely credited with changing music theory. Emotion and Meaning in Music by Leonard B. The third, Jackendoff and Lerdahl's A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, deals with an attempt to create a theory for musical perception and cognition. Two participants, musicologist Fred Lerdahl and linguist Ray Jackendoff, went on to publish a groundbreaking 1983 book on music cognition, A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Meyer, University of Chicago Press, 1961.