Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl (born March 10, 1943) is an American music theorist and composer. Best known for his work on musical grammar, cognition, rhythmic theory and pitch space, he and the linguist Ray Jackendoff developed the Chomsky-inspired generative theory of tonal music.
Lerdahl has written numerous orchestral and chamber works, three of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Time after Time in 2001, String Quartet No. 3 in 2010, and Arches in 2011. He is a Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition at Columbia University.[1]
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Alfred Whitford (Fred) Lerdahl (born March 10, 1943) is an American music theorist and composer. Best known for his work on musical grammar, cognition...
and the computational theory of mind, on syntactic theory, and, with FredLerdahl, on musical cognition, culminating in their generative theory of tonal...
scholars. Recent work in these areas includes books by Maury Yeston, FredLerdahl and Ray Jackendoff, Jonathan Kramer, Christopher Hasty, Godfried Toussaint...
"Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems" is an essay by FredLerdahl that cites Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître (1955) as an example of...
music (GTTM) is a system of music analysis developed by music theorist FredLerdahl and linguist Ray Jackendoff. First presented in their 1983 book of the...
most well-known approaches were developed by Mark Steedman as well as FredLerdahl and Ray Jackendoff, who formalized and extended ideas from Schenkerian...
(better translated as "composing out" or "elaboration"). According to FredLerdahl, "The term 'prolongation' [...] usually means 'composing out' (Schenker's...
scholars. The most highly cited of these recent scholars are Maury Yeston, FredLerdahl and Ray Jackendoff, Jonathan Kramer, and Justin London. A melody is a...
his Collected Essays on Modern and Classical Music, with a foreword by FredLerdahl and an afterword by Joseph Dubiel, 49–60. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow...
(attended) Barbara Lawton, 1987, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (2001–2011) FredLerdahl, 1965, composer and music theorist John A. Luke Jr., 1971, CEO of MeadWestvaco...
Jean-Jacques Nattiez, necessary for music to become accessible to analysis. FredLerdahl argues that discretization is necessary even for perception by learned...
phenomena of style change, and focuses on Romanticism as a case study. FredLerdahl and Ray Jackendoff analyze how music is structured like a language with...
Mario Davidovsky, Michael Gandolfi, William Bolcom, Osvaldo Golijov, FredLerdahl, Gunther Schuller, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Susan Botti, David Rakowski...
Fasano Gustav Fechner Hermann von Helmholtz Bart Hopkin Yuri Landman FredLerdahl François-Bernard Mâche Dario Martinelli Gabriel Pareyon Richard Parncutt...
which have included Thomas Adès, George Tsontakis, Osvaldo Golijov, FredLerdahl, Derek Bermel, Frederic Rzewski, and dozens of others. In addition, Saint...
analysis), and in the (1985) Generative Theory of Tonal Music, by composer FredLerdahl and linguist Ray Jackendoff). The sum of all notes in a piece is understood...
an aggregation escapes classification in terms of harmony textbooks. FredLerdahl presents alternate interpretations of the Tristan motive, as either i...
115) This nested quality resembles FredLerdahl's "reductional format" for pitch space from the bottom up: (Lerdahl, 1992) In a dynamical approach, spinning...
in two essays. Later writers have continued both lines of reasoning. FredLerdahl, for example, in his essay "Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems"...
sonata in F (finished by Vincent d'Indy) Ruggero Leoncavallo Serenade FredLerdahl Duo (2017) Peter Lieberson Three Variations Remembering Schumann Hélène...
publisher (link) Lerdahl, Fred; Jackendoff, Ray (1983). A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262120944. Lerdahl, Fred (1992). "Cognitive...
composers from the experimental classical tradition with settings include FredLerdahl (Wake, 1967-8), and Tod Machover (Soft Morning, City!, 1980). André Hodeir...
on the UK Albums Chart. April 5 A Generative Theory of Tonal Music by FredLerdahl and Ray Jackendoff is published. US Interior Secretary James G. Watt...
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