'Foundations of Musical Grammar' makes a unique contribution to music theory by building on recent research in cognitive science and theoretical perspectives ad

How is it that humans are able to organize seemingly random sounds into the captivating sonic structures we call music? In this volume, Lawrence M. Zbikowski ar

In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology

A search for a grammar of music with the aid of generative linguistics. This work, which has become a classic in music theory since its original publication in

This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how w