The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures

Preface
Part 1 - Conceptual Background
1. Introduction
2. The Problem of Style as a Perceptual Constant in a Theory of Melodic Implication
3. Incorporating Style in a Theory of Implication
4. Rejuvenating Gestalt Principles
5. Registral Direction, Intervallic Motion, and Pitch Specificity
Part 2 - Some Basic Structures
List of Most Common Symbols
6. Processive [P] and Duplicative [D] Structures
7. Denial of Registral and Intervallic Implication in Intervals of Continuation
8. Implication of Complete Reversal [R]
9. Intervallic Reversal [IR]: Denial of Registral Implication
10. Denial of Both Intervallic Motion and Registral Direction in Reversal Implication
11. The Criteria for Invoking Metric Differentiation (b) as a Structural Influence on Additive Melodic Patterns
12. Style Interference (ox, xs) Amplified: Gap Filling and Interval Filling as Style Structures
13. The Octave as Registral Transfer [8] and Retrospective Reversal [(R)]; More on Style-Structural Influence (os, xs)
14. Retrospective Reversal [(R)], Retrospective Intervallic Reversal [(1R)], Retrospective Process [(P)], and Retrospective Duplication [(D)]
Part 3 - Theoretical Background
15. The Intervallic (I) and Registral (V) Parametric Scales of Melody
16. The Scaled Materials of the Parameter of Melody
17. Motion on the Melodic Parametric Scales
18. Some Differences Among Various Parametric Scales
19. Style Learning and the Diversity of Scale Slotting
Part 4 - The Remaining Basic Structures
20. Registral Process [VP] and Registral Reversal [VR]
21. Intervallic Process [IP] and Intervallic Duplication [ID]
22. Exact and Near Registral Return [aba, aba1]
23. Dyadic and Monadic [M] Melodic Structures
Part 5 - Conclusion
24. Some Suggested Experimental Topics
Appendix 1: The General Hypothetical Theoretical Rules
Appendix 2: Glossary of Symbols
References
Index of Musical Examples
General Index