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Composition and Cognition
Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind
Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures
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This book is ideal for students, instructors, composers, and music scholars interested in contemporary music and the cognitive processes behind composition.
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In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his career-long work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation for his compositional style and how his intuitions as a composer have guided his cognitively oriented theories.
At times personal and reflective, this book offers an overall picture of the musical mind that has implications for central issues in contemporary composition, including the recurrent gap between method and result, and the tension between cognitive constraints and utopian aesthetic views of musical progress.
Lerdahl’s succinct volume provides invaluable insights for students and instructors, composers and music scholars, and anyone engaged with contemporary music.
Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures
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Music Theory Online praises the book as "an example of something music theory might do more of: letting composers talk seriously and personally about the ideas animating their music."
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ISBN: 9780520305106
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 November 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Illustration: 53 music examples, 29 b-w line art
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 227g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Fred Lerdahl is Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition at Columbia University. He is widely recognized both for his chamber music and orchestral compositions and for his writings in music theory and the cognitive science of music.
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