Fred Lerdahl's thought has exercised a widespread influence on music theory and music cognition as well as informing the analysis of music in the tonal repertoire and beyond. This conference, organized in his honor by the Department of Music at Columbia University, will present recent work based on and related to the theoretical work of Fred Lerdahl as well as its applicability to various areas of research and musical practice.
9:00 Welcome: Robert Remez
Session 1 (Chair: Robert Remez)
9:15-10:00 Ray Jackendoff: Some Things Fred and I Didn't Do
10:00-10:45: Carol Krumhansl: Modeling the Dynamics of Musical Tension
10:45-11:15 Pause
11:15-12:00 Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis: Music and the Implicit
Session 2 (Chair: Marilyn Nonken)
2:00-2:45 David Temperley: Generating Music with Tonal Theory
2:45-3:15: Joshua Banks Mailman: The LerDial: a Dynamic Practical-Tactile-Visual-Pedagogical Model of Lerdahl’s Tonal Chord Distance Measure
3:15-3:45: Anthony Fort: From "Complicated" to "Complex": Re-Hearing the Opening of Milton Babbitt's Post-Partitions
3:45-4 Pause
Session 3 (Chair: Morwaread Mary Farbood)
4-4:30: Joshua Cody: Tonality as a Psychological Condition: Lerdahl, Ligeti, and Trauma
4:30-5: William Dougherty: Giacinto Scelsi’s Anahit: A Cognitive Approach to Analysis
5-6: Panel discussion moderated by Morwaread Mary Farbood