The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures: The Implication-Realization Model

by Eugene Narmour

Eugene Narmour formulates a comprehensive theory of melodic syntax to explain cognitive relations between melodic tones at their most basic level. Expanding on the theories of Leonard B. Meyer, the author develops one parsimonious, scaled set of rules modeling implication and realization in all the primary parameters of music. Through an elaborate and original analytic symbology, he shows that a kind of "genetic code" governs the perception and cognition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226568458
• ISBN13: 9780226568454
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"