Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
An Unanswered Question | p. 1 |
Goals and Methodology | p. 4 |
Music Cognition and Music Theory | p. 8 |
The Input Representation | p. 9 |
The Preference Rule Approach | p. 13 |
The Implementation Strategy | p. 14 |
Six Preference Rule Systems | p. 21 |
Metrical Structure | p. 23 |
Meter | p. 23 |
Previous Research on Metrical Analysis | p. 27 |
A Preference Rule System for Meter | p. 30 |
Implementation | p. 39 |
Tests | p. 42 |
Problems and Possible Improvements | p. 44 |
Other Factors in Metrical Structure | p. 48 |
Choosing the Right Tactus | p. 52 |
Melodic Phrase Structure | p. 55 |
Musical Grouping and Phrase Structure | p. 55 |
Studies of Musical Grouping in Psychology | p. 56 |
Models of Grouping Structure | p. 60 |
A Preference Rule System for Melodic Phrase Structure | p. 65 |
Implementation and Tests | p. 71 |
Grouping in Polyphonic Music | p. 76 |
Contrapuntal Structure | p. 85 |
Counterpoint | p. 85 |
Sequential Integration in Auditory Psychology | p. 87 |
Computational Models of Contrapuntal Analysis | p. 91 |
A Preference Rule System for Contrapuntal Analysis | p. 96 |
Implementation | p. 102 |
Tests | p. 106 |
Pitch Spelling and the Tonal-Pitch-Class Representation | p. 115 |
Pitch-Class, Harmony, and Key | p. 115 |
Spatial Representations in Music Theory | p. 116 |
Tonal-Pitch-Class Labeling | p. 123 |
A Preference Rule System for Tonal-Pitch-Class Labeling | p. 124 |
Implementation | p. 132 |
Tests | p. 134 |
Harmonic Structure | p. 137 |
Harmony | p. 137 |
Experimental and Computational Work on Harmonic Analysis | p. 139 |
A Preference Rule System for Harmonic Analysis | p. 147 |
Implementation | p. 154 |
Some Subtle Features of the Model | p. 159 |
Tests | p. 162 |
Other Aspects of Harmonic Structure | p. 164 |
Key Structure | p. 167 |
Key | p. 167 |
Psychological and Computational Work on Key | p. 168 |
The Krumhansl-Schmuckler Key-Finding Algorithm | p. 173 |
Improving the Algorithm's Performance | p. 176 |
Modulation | p. 187 |
Implementation | p. 188 |
Tests | p. 191 |
An Alternative Approach to Modulation | p. 198 |
Extensions and Implications | p. 203 |
Revision, Ambiguity, and Expectation | p. 205 |
Diachronic Processing and Ambiguity | p. 205 |
Modeling the Diachronic Processing of Music | p. 206 |
Examples of Revision | p. 210 |
Revision in Tonal Analysis | p. 215 |
Synchronic Ambiguity | p. 219 |
Ambiguity in Contrapuntal Structure | p. 224 |
Ambiguity in Meter | p. 228 |
Expectation | p. 231 |
Meter, Harmony, and Tonality in Rock | p. 237 |
Beyond Common-Practice Music | p. 237 |
Syncopation in Rock | p. 239 |
Applications and Extensions of the Syncopation Model | p. 247 |
Harmony in Rock | p. 253 |
Modality and Tonicization in Rock | p. 258 |
Meter and Grouping in African Music | p. 265 |
African Rhythm | p. 265 |
Meter in African Music | p. 268 |
How Is Meter Inferred? | p. 272 |
Western and African Meter: A Comparison | p. 276 |
Hemiolas and the "Standard Pattern" | p. 279 |
"Syncopation Shift" in African Music | p. 282 |
Grouping Structure in African Music | p. 286 |
Conclusions | p. 289 |
Style, Composition, and Performance | p. 291 |
The Study of Generative Processes in Music | p. 291 |
Describing Musical Styles and Compositional Practice | p. 292 |
Further Implications: Is Some Music "Nonmetrical"? | p. 299 |
Preference Rules as Compositional Constraints: Some Relevant Research | p. 305 |
Preference Rule Scores and Musical Tension | p. 307 |
Performance | p. 317 |
Functions of the Infrastructure | p. 325 |
Beyond the Infrastructure | p. 325 |
Motivic Structure and Encoding | p. 326 |
Musical Schemata | p. 336 |
Tension and Energy | p. 339 |
The Functions of Harmony and Tonality | p. 340 |
Arbitrariness | p. 345 |
Explaining Musical Details: An Exercise in Recomposition | p. 349 |
The Power of Common-Practice Music | p. 354 |
List of Rules | p. 357 |
Notes | p. 361 |
References | p. 381 |
Author Index | p. 393 |
Subject Index | p. 397 |
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