Fred Lerdahl

Fred Lerdahl (born March 10 1943 ) is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University , and 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 was born in Madison, Wisconsin . He 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.

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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 0-262-62107-X.

Lerdahl, Fred (2001). ''Tonal Pitch Space''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505834-8

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