The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures

David Temperley

404 pages, parution le 04/10/2004

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Résumé

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 generating six basic kinds of musical structure: meter, phrase structure, contrapuntal structure, harmony, and key, as well as pitch spelling (the labeling of pitch events with spellings such as A flat or G sharp). He suggests that preference rule systems not only show how musical structures are inferred, but also shed light on other aspects of music. He substantiates this claim with discussions of musical ambiguity, retrospective revision, expectation, and music outside the Western canon (rock and traditional African music). He proposes a framework for the description of musical styles based on preference rule systems and explores the relevance of preference rule systems to higher-level aspects of music, such as musical schemata, narrative and drama, and musical tension.

L'auteur - David Temperley

David Temperley is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music.

Sommaire

Introduction
Six Preference Rule Systems
- Metrical Structure
- Melodic Phrase Structure
- Contrapuntal Structure
- Pitch Spelling and the Tonal-Pitch-Class Representation
- Harmonic Structure
- Key Structure
Extensions and Implications
- Revision, Ambiguity, and Expectation
- Meter, Harmony, and Tonality in Rock
- Meter and Grouping in African Music
- Style, Composition, and Performance
- Functions of the Infrastructure

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Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	David Temperley
Parution	04/10/2004
Nb. de pages	404
Format	16,5 x 22
Couverture	Broché
Poids	727g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262701051
ISBN13	978-0-262-70105-1