Re: On the Grammar of Music (Roger Watt )

Subject: Re: On the Grammar of Music
From:    Roger Watt  <r.j.watt(at)STIR.AC.UK>
Date:    Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:00:02 +0100

Dear list

I'm sure there's a good answer to this and would be grateful for someone
pointing it out, but what's wrong wiht saying that the grammar/rules concern
how we hear music not how it is produced. That's what Lerdahl and Jackendoff
said:

"a generative grammar of music htat relates the aural surface of a piece to
the musical structure unconsciously inferred by the experienced listener."
- on the back cover of the book

Roger Watt
University of Stirling