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1. 1. A Generative Theory Of Tonal Music, Reissue, With A New Preface

   

   This seminal work presents a comprehensive framework for understanding the structure and perception of tonal music through a generative grammar approach. It delves into the cognitive processes underlying music comprehension, offering a detailed analysis of how listeners intuitively grasp musical syntax. By integrating insights from linguistics and cognitive science, the book provides a formalized model that explains how tonal music is organized and perceived, making it a pivotal resource for music theorists, cognitive scientists, and anyone interested in the intersection of music and cognition.

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2. 2. Tonal Pitch Space

   A Theory of Musical Hierarchy

   

   This book develops a formal, cognitively grounded model of how listeners perceive tonal pitch relations by arranging pitch collections and keys in a hierarchical, multi-scale “pitch space” where proximity and stability encode perceived closeness, tension, and resolution; it specifies metrics for distances between pitch classes, chords, and keys, defines centers and regions of tonal attraction, and shows how voice-leading and harmonic progressions map onto paths through the space to explain cadences, modulations, and degrees of structural importance, offering a precise framework that extends earlier generative theories and makes testable predictions about musical perception and analysis.

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