The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures

By David Temperley

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262201348
• ISBN13: 9780262201346
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 7.3"