Fred Lerdahl

Fred Lerdahl, born March 10, 1943, Madison, Wisconsin. He is Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University , is a Composer and Music Theorist , best known for his work on Pitch Space and Cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical Grammar {Link without Title} ."

Lerdahl studied with James Ming at Lawrence University , where he earned his BMus in 1965, and with Milton Babbitt , Edward Cone , and Earl Kim at Princeton University , where he earned his MFA in 1967. He then studied with Wolfgang Fortner at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg/Breisgau in 1968-69, on a Fulbright Scholarship . He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lawrence University in 1999.

SEE ALSO

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lerdahl, Fred (1992). Cognitive Constraints On Compositional Systems , Contemporary Music Review 6 (2), pp. 97-121.

Lerdahl, Fred and Jackendoff, Ray (1996). ''A Generative Theory of Tonal Music''. MIT Press. ISBN 026262107X.

Lerdahl, Fred (2001). ''Tonal Pitch Space''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195058348

EXTERNAL LINKS

	CATEGORIES ABOUT FRED LERDAHL

	american composers

	lerdahl, fred

	21st century classical composers

	living people

	american music theorists

	lawrence university alumni

	princeton university alumni

	columbia university faculty

Information About