Fred Lerdahl

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Fred Lerdahl is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Princeton University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Lawrence University

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Fred Lerdahl

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#1914

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#2797

Historical Rank

#907

USA Rank

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Fred Lerdahl's Degrees

PhD Music Composition Princeton University
Bachelors Music Lawrence University

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According to Wikipedia, Alfred Whitford Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on musical grammar and cognition, rhythmic theory, pitch space, and cognitive constraints on compositional systems. He has written many 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.

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Fred Lerdahl's Published Works

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Published Works

A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (1985) (3741)
Tonal Pitch Space (2001) (373)
The capacity for music: What is it, and what’s special about it? (2006) (307)
An overview of hierarchical structure in music (1983) (218)
Perception of musical tension in short chord sequences: The influence of harmonic function, sensory dissonance, horizontal motion, and musical training (1996) (215)
Modeling Tonal Tension (2007) (209)
Cognitive constraints on compositional systems (1992) (179)
Toward a Formal Theory of Tonal Music (1977) (106)
Atonal prolongational structure (1989) (103)
Calculating Tonal Tension (1996) (102)
The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music (2001) (81)
A Grammatical Parallel between Music and Language (1982) (51)
On the Theory of Grouping and Meter (1981) (39)
A Reply to Peel and Slawson's Review of "A Generative Theory of Tonal Music" (1985) (32)
Genesis and Architecture of the GTTM Project (2009) (30)
Generative Music Theory and Its Relation to Psychology (1981) (28)
Musical Syntax and Its Relation to Linguistic Syntax (2013) (25)
A Generative Textsetting Model (2017) (25)
The capacity for music: What's special about it (2006) (18)
Pitch-space journeys in two Chopin preludes. (1992) (17)
Issues in Prolongational Theory: A Response to Larson (1997) (14)
Essay: Two Ways in Which Music Relates to the World (2003) (12)
Multiple levels of structure in language and music (2013) (12)
A deep parallel between music and language (1980) (11)
Spatial and Psychoacoustic Factors in Atonal Prolongation (1997) (10)
Concepts and Representations of Musical Hierarchies (2015) (10)
Looking into the eyes of a conductor performing Lerdahl's “Time after Time” (2010) (9)
Evolving intelligent musical materials (2003) (5)
Composition and Cognition: Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind (2019) (4)
A Theory of Poetry as Music and Its Exploration through a Computer Aid to Composition (1991) (4)
Some lines of poetry viewed as music (1991) (4)
Prolonging the Inevitable (1998) (4)
Tonality and Paranoia: A Reply to Boros (1996) (3)
On Teaching Composition (2012) (2)
Discovery Procedures vs. Rules of Musical Grammar in a Generative Music Theory (1979) (2)
Prolongational structure and schematic form in Tristan's “Alte Weise” (1998) (2)
Composition and Cognition (2019) (0)
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Interview with Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff (2010) (0)
Paths in Pitch Space (2005) (0)
Number 1 regular articles Isabelle peretz (university of montreal) the nature of music from a biological perspective, 1–32 (2006) (0)
THEORY: A RESPONSE TO LARSON (2016) (0)
String Quartet@@@First String Quartet (1990) (0)
Note from the USA regional editor (1992) (0)
Reflections on Leonard Meyer (2008) (0)
Chromatic Tonal Spacesm (2005) (0)
The first voices (2007) (0)
"A generative theory of tonal music", Fred Lerdahl, Ray Jackendoff, Londyn 1983 : [recenzja] / Zofia Helman. (1986) (0)
Tonal Tension and Attraction (2005) (0)
Formal Models at the Core (2023) (0)
Prolongations in Chromatic Spaces (2005) (0)
Harvard Psychology of Procrastination Virtual Reality as Niche for Support Groups 2 Nd Language Acquisition (2007) (0)

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