Fred Lerdahl

Fred Lerdahl

Fred Lerdahl (born March 10 1943) is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical grammar [s] ." As a composer, Lerdahl is widely respected for his chamber works, including "Time After Time", a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Lerdahl was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied with James Ming at Lawrence University, where he earned his BMus in 1965, and with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, and Earl Kim at Princeton 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 a Fulbright 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, and R. Luke DuBois.

ee also

*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 0-19-505834-8

External 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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