Generative Theories in Language and Music Description.

Sundberg, Johan; Lindblom, Bjorn

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Publication Date: 1976

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Generative Theories in Language and Music Description

Sundberg, Johan; Lindblom, Bjorn

Cognition, 4, 1, 99-122, Mar 76

The style of a set of nursery tunes are described in terms of a generative rule system. It is found that there are many parallels between music and sentence structure. These parallels may reflect man's perceptual and cognitive capacities. (Author/DEP)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language, Music Theory, Musical Composition, Sentence Structure

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