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Annotation for Lerdahl, Fred, and Jackendoff, Ray: A brief exposition of their joint work applying insights from generative linguistics to the formal analysis of music, assuming the listener is experienced in the tonal idiom.
Lerdahl and Jackendoff Revisited: Essay by Heikki Valkonen with introduction to their General Theory of Tonal Music, general ingredients, the four hierarchical dimensions, and perceived problems with the theory.
Linguistics Colloquia Abstracts: Abstracts of three talks Jackendoff delivered to the 1997 University of Delaware Linguistic Colloquia. The talks deal mostly with topics from Jackendoff's `The Architecture of the Language Faculty'.
Review and Discussion of `A Generative Theory of Tonal Music': Article by Alan Ruttenberg.
Review of `Patterns in the Mind' and `The Language Instinct': Review titled `Wired for Sound' by Daniel C. Dennett of the books by Ray Jackendoff and Stephen Pinker, which appeared in the London Review of Books (1994).

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