Please see the below, forwarded on behalf of Daniel Harasim:
This Thursday, Daniel Harasim will give a talk on the topic of Musical Syntax in the department of linguistics. All details and the abstract of his talk can be viewed below.
*Speaker:* Daniel Harasim
*Title:* Musical Syntax
*Date: *Thursday, February 16th
*Time: *12am
*Place: *room 177, Department of Linguistics, 1085 Dr. Penfield
*Abstract:* Musical structures can be formalized similar to the syntax of natural languages. The syntax of western music is based on a harmonic tension-resolution structure that is intuitively perceivable. In this talk, I will shortly explain musical syntax using music text book examples of Jazz. Then I will focus on the formalization of musical syntax using dependency structures in a generative framework. I will end by explaining core challenges of parsing musical structures and its implementation using a meta-rule formalism in a general parsing framework.