Fred Lerdahl, a composer and music theorist at Columbia University, spoke at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music as part of the Exploring the Mind Through Music Conference. Dr. Lerdahl spoke about the differences and similarities between musical and linguistic syntax.

More details on the conference can be found at www.rice.edu/mindandmusic.

For abstracts for this talk and the others at the conference, please visit http://www.rice.edu/mindandmusic/facu...