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Cognition of Basic Musical Structures

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ISBN-10: 0262201348

ISBN-13: 9780262201346

Edition: 2001

Authors: David Temperley

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In this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of musical information, such as meter, phrase structure, counterpoint, pitch spelling, harmony, and key from music as we hear it? Taking a computational approach, Temperley develops models for generating these aspects of musical structure. The models he proposes are based on preference rules, which are criteria for evaluating a possible structural analysis of a piece of music. A preference rule system evaluates many possible interpretations and chooses the one that best satisfies the rules. After an introductory chapter, Temperley presents preference rule systems for…    
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Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/21/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 442
Size: 7.36" wide x 9.13" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

David Temperley is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, and the author of The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures (MIT Press, 2001).

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
An Unanswered Question
Goals and Methodology
Music Cognition and Music Theory
The Input Representation
The Preference Rule Approach
The Implementation Strategy
Six Preference Rule Systems
Metrical Structure
Meter
Previous Research on Metrical Analysis
A Preference Rule System for Meter
Implementation
Tests
Problems and Possible Improvements
Other Factors in Metrical Structure
Choosing the Right Tactus
Melodic Phrase Structure
Musical Grouping and Phrase Structure
Studies of Musical Grouping in Psychology
Models of Grouping Structure
A Preference Rule System for Melodic Phrase Structure
Implementation and Tests
Grouping in Polyphonic Music
Contrapuntal Structure
Counterpoint
Sequential Integration in Auditory Psychology
Computational Models of Contrapuntal Analysis
A Preference Rule System for Contrapuntal Analysis
Implementation
Tests
Pitch Spelling and the Tonal-Pitch-Class Representation
Pitch-Class, Harmony, and Key
Spatial Representations in Music Theory
Tonal-Pitch-Class Labeling
A Preference Rule System for Tonal-Pitch-Class Labeling
Implementation
Tests
Harmonic Structure
Harmony
Experimental and Computational Work on Harmonic Analysis
A Preference Rule System for Harmonic Analysis
Implementation
Some Subtle Features of the Model
Tests
Other Aspects of Harmonic Structure
Key Structure
Key
Psychological and Computational Work on Key
The Krumhansl-Schmuckler Key-Finding Algorithm
Improving the Algorithm's Performance
Modulation
Implementation
Tests
An Alternative Approach to Modulation
Extensions and Implications
Revision, Ambiguity, and Expectation
Diachronic Processing and Ambiguity
Modeling the Diachronic Processing of Music
Examples of Revision
Revision in Tonal Analysis
Synchronic Ambiguity
Ambiguity in Contrapuntal Structure
Ambiguity in Meter
Expectation
Meter, Harmony, and Tonality in Rock
Beyond Common-Practice Music
Syncopation in Rock
Applications and Extensions of the Syncopation Model
Harmony in Rock
Modality and Tonicization in Rock
Meter and Grouping in African Music
African Rhythm
Meter in African Music
How Is Meter Inferred?
Western and African Meter: A Comparison
Hemiolas and the "Standard Pattern"
"Syncopation Shift" in African Music
Grouping Structure in African Music
Conclusions
Style, Composition, and Performance
The Study of Generative Processes in Music
Describing Musical Styles and Compositional Practice
Further Implications: Is Some Music "Nonmetrical"?
Preference Rules as Compositional Constraints: Some Relevant Research
Preference Rule Scores and Musical Tension
Performance
Functions of the Infrastructure
Beyond the Infrastructure
Motivic Structure and Encoding
Musical Schemata
Tension and Energy
The Functions of Harmony and Tonality
Arbitrariness
Explaining Musical Details: An Exercise in Recomposition
The Power of Common-Practice Music
List of Rules
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index