"Tonal Pitch Space builds on, and in many ways completes, the project of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Like the earlier volume, it is both an original music-theoretic treatise and a contribution to the cognitive science of musi…
'Tonal Pitch Space' presents a model of diatonic space that quantifies intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords and keys.
'Tonal Pitch Space' presents a model of diatonic space that quantifies intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords and keys.
"Tonal Pitch Space builds on, and in many ways completes, the project of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Like the earlier volume, it is both an original music-theoretic treatise and a contribution to the cognitive science of musi…
Building on the foundation of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, this volume presents a multidimensional model of diatonic and chromatic spaces that quantifies listeners' intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords, and keys from…
"Twentieth-century musicians endeavouring to re-create the music of earlier periods face a variety of challenges. Robert Toft addresses one of these: in the sixteenth century, sharps and flats were rarely notated in the sources of vocal music. Singers were expected to be familia…
Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music.
Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music.