Special issue – Music and language: 25 years after Lerdahl & Jackendoff's GTTM
Category
Journal Article
Authors
Bigand, E., Lalitte, P., Dowling, W. J.
Year
2009
Title
Special issue – Music and language: 25 years after Lerdahl & Jackendoff's GTTM
Journal / book / conference
Music Perception
Abstract
The publication of Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM) in 1983 represents a landmark in the history of music cognition. Its contribution was to provide a quasi-formal description of the different musical structures that underlie the perception of Western music. It provides an analytical account of four perceptual components concerning grouping structure, metrical structure, time-span reduction, and prolongational reduction...
Issue
3
Volume
26
Pages
185-186