theory general musical generative

books:

Teoria Generativa De La Musica Tonal/ the General Theary of the Musical Tone (Musica)
Fred Lerdahl

Akal Ediciones, 2003

A Generative Theory of Tonal Music

5 reviews
Fred Lerdahl, Ray Jackendoff

The MIT Press, 1996

This book is a turning point in XXth century music theory...
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. Should we work with a double conception of structure: surface structure (focusing on surface salience) versus deep struture (focusing on reductional importance)? The investigation of surface salience ...

Tonal Pitch Space

1 review
Fred Lerdahl

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

If only I could understand!
As a 3rd year undergraduate studying composition, I cracked open this book, only to find jibberish. As soon as you begin it jumps into a language hierarchical graphic analysis. Maybe I didn't give the book a chance, but I think this book has a very steep learning curve, and assumes lots of background in analysis. Why can't they teach advanced analysis in undergraduate programs?