- Fred Lerdahl
Fred Lerdahl (born
March 10 1943 ) is theFritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition atColumbia University , and acomposer and music theorist best known for his work onpitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musicalgrammar [s] ." As a composer, Lerdahl is widely respected for his chamber works, including "Time After Time", a finalist for the 2001Pulitzer Prize for Music .Lerdahl was born in
Madison, Wisconsin . He studied with James Ming atLawrence University , where he earned his BMus in 1965, and withMilton Babbitt ,Edward Cone , andEarl Kim atPrinceton 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 aFulbright Scholarship . He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lawrence University in 1999.Notable students of Fred Lerdahl include composers
Huck Hodge ,Dalit Warshaw ,Jason Freeman , andR. Luke DuBois .ee also
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Music cognition 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 0-19-505834-8External links
* [http://www.fredlerdahl.com The Official Fred Lerdahl Homepage]
* [http://music.columbia.edu/people/bios/lerdahl-fred Columbia Department of Music Faculty: Fred Lerdahl]
* [http://music.dartmouth.edu/~kov/lerdahl/ Fred Lerdahl's Attack on Serialism] by Ken Overton
* [http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=50 Art of the States: Fred Lerdahl]
* [http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=48hf06 New Music Box asks Fred Lerdahl: What role has theory played in your compositions and how important is it for people to know the theory behind the music in order to appreciate it?]
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