Fred Lerdahl
About Fred Lerdahl
Alfred Whitford Lerdahl (Fred Lerdahl) (born March 10, 1943, in Madison, Wisconsin) is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical grammar." He has written many orchestral and chamber works, two of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Time after Time in 2001 and String Quartet No. 3 in 2010.
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String Quartet No. 3
String Quartet No. 1
Fantasy Etudes
There and Back Again (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)
Waves
Waltzes
Cross-Currents
Waves for Chamber Orchestra
String Quartet No. 2
The First Voices
String Quartet No. 4 "Chaconne"
Arches
Episodes and Refrains
Wake
Quiet Music
String Quartet No. 1 (1978 Version)
First String Quartet
Times 3: I. Ratios
3 Bagatelles: No. 1, —
Embedded Loops
There and Back Again
Marches
Times 3: III. Phases
Oboe Quartet
Fire and Ice
Eros
Solitude
Time and Again
Three Bagatelles: No. 2, —
Times 3: II. Cycles
Waltzes: I. Waltz 1
Three Bagatelles: No. 3, —
Imbrications
String Quartet No. 2 (2010 Version)
Waltzes: II. Waltz 2
3 Bagatelles: No. 2, —
Inner Life
Three Diatonic Studies
3 Bagatelles: No. 3, —
Three Bagatelles: No. 1, —
Duo: I. Disputation
Duo: II. Elegy
Waltzes: III. Waltz 3
Waltzes: IV. Waltz 4
Spirals: II. Half note = ca. 46
Spirals: I. Quarter note = ca. 69
Third String Quartet (2008)
Time After Time
Waltzes: V. Waltz 5
Quiet Music (Version for 2 Pianos)
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