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== Reception ==

Lerdahl's paper has elicited many responses. While writer [[Roger Scruton]], author of [[How to Be a Conservative]], praised it, calling it "hard-hitting" ([[#Scruton|Scruton 2016]]), there have been a number of negative reactions.

Lerdahl's paper has elicited many responses. [[Nicholas Cook]] wrote, "The idea that music is a process of communication in which listeners decode structures that composers have encoded... is... based on several disputable assumptions: that people choose to listen grammatically; that there is, or ought to be, an equivalance between compositional and listening grammars; and, most fundamentally, that there is such a thing as musical grammar" ([[#Cook1994|Cook 1994, 88]]). He writes that Lerdahl

<blockquote>...assume(s) that there should be a more or less linear relationship between the manner in which a composer conceives a composition and the manner in which a listener perceives it. ...Lerdahl's aim is to specify the conditions that must be fulfilled if there is to be conformity between 'compositional grammar' and 'listening grammar'. And... he ends up by measuring existing music against the stipulations of his theory, using this as a basis for aesthetic evaluation. The result is to write off not only the Darmstadt avant-garde and minimalism, but also huge swathes of non-Western and popular music. ([[#Cook1999|Cook 1999, 241]])</blockquote>

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* {{wikicite |ref=Mosch2004 |reference=Mosch, Ulrich. 2004. ''Musikalisches Hören serieller Musik: Untersuchungen am Beispiel von Pierre Boulez’ «Le Marteau sans maître».'' Saarbrücken: Pfau-Verlag.}}

* {{wikicite |ref=Rowe1992 |reference=Rowe, Robert. 1992. ''Interactive Music Systems.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.}}

* {{wikicite|ref=Scruton |reference=Scruton, Roger. 2016. "[http://www.futuresymphony.org/the-clothes-have-no-emperor The Clothes Have No Emperor]". Future Symphony Institute (accessed 12 December 2021).}}

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