Special issue – Music and language: 25 years after Lerdahl & Jackendoff’s GTTM

The publication of Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM) in 1983 represents a landmark in the history of music cognition. Its contribution was to provide a quasi-formal description of the different musical structures that underlie the perception of Western music. It provides an analytical account of four perceptual components concerning grouping structure, metrical structure, time-span reduction, and prolongational reduction…