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consciously employed musical grammar.See Also: grammar, natural grammar, artificial grammar, listening grammar
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Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems — Fred Lerdahl s Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems cites Pierre Boulez s Le Marteau sans Maître (1955) as an example of a huge gap between compositional system and cognized result, though he could have illustrated just as well with… … Wikipedia
natural grammar — noun A musical grammar which arises spontaneously in a musical culture (as opposed to an artificial grammar). See Also: grammar, musical grammar, compositional grammar, artificial grammar … Wiktionary
Construction grammar — The term construction grammar (CxG) covers a family of theories, or models, of grammar that are based on the idea that the primary unit of grammar is the grammatical construction rather than the atomic syntactic unit and the rule that combines… … Wikipedia
Formal grammar — In formal semantics, computer science and linguistics, a formal grammar (also called formation rules) is a precise description of a formal language ndash; that is, of a set of strings over some alphabet. In other words, a grammar describes which… … Wikipedia
Categorial grammar — is a term used for a family of formalisms in natural language syntax motivated by the principle of compositionality and organized according to the view that syntactic constituents should generally combine as functions or according to a function… … Wikipedia
Generalised phrase structure grammar — (GPSG) is a framework for describing the syntax and semantics of natural languages. GPSG was initially developed in the late 1970s by Gerald Gazdar. Other contributors include Ewan Klein, Ivan Sag, and Geoffrey Pullum. Their book Generalized… … Wikipedia
Predicate (grammar) — In traditional grammar, a predicate is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the subject, which the predicate modifies). In current linguistic semantics, a predicate is an expression that can be true of something. Thus, the… … Wikipedia
composition — compositional, adj. compositionally, adv. compositive /keuhm poz i tiv/, adj. compositively, adv. /kom peuh zish euhn/, n. 1. the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole. 2. the resulting state or product. 3. man … Universalium
linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… … Universalium
Algorithmic composition — is the technique of using algorithms to create music.Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often … Wikipedia
