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  • The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music

    The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music - Paperback

    The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music - Paperback

    By Alfred Lerdahl

About Alfred Lerdahl Books

Fred Lerdahl is Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition at Columbia University. An acclaimed composer and music theorist, he has written numerous orchestral and chamber pieces, three of which have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in music. His books include A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, with linguist Ray Jackendoff (1983); Tonal Pitch Space (2001); and Composition and Cognition: Reflections on Contemporary Music and the Musical Mind (2020).