Generative Grammar


This document is part of my master's degree exam at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Frankfurt am Main and examines similarities between two algorithmic compositions by James Tenney and Fredrik Rzewski in terms of what I call 'music dialects', with reference to the concept of generative grammars by Noam Chomsky. The Python package 'Kodou', which is used in the paper is now called 'Lento', and is available on Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/lento/