natural grammar

English

Noun

natural grammar (plural natural grammars)

(music) A musical grammar which arises spontaneously in a musical culture (as opposed to an artificial grammar).

Related terms

grammar
musical grammar
compositional grammar
artificial grammar

References

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

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