Natural grammar

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.2 Related terms 1.3 Source

English

Noun

1. (music) A natural grammar is a musical grammar that "arisies spontaneously in a musical culture...will dominate in a culture emphasizing improvisation and encouraging active participation of the community in all the varieties of musical behaviour...depends on the listening grammar as a source"

Related terms

• grammar
• musical grammar
• compositional grammar
• artificial grammar

Source

• Lerdahl, Fred (1992). Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems, Contemporary Music Review 6 (2), pp. 97-121.