Annotation for Lerdahl, Fred, and Jackendoff, Ray - A brief exposition of their joint work applying insights from generative linguistics to the formal analysis of music, assuming the listener is experienced in the tonal idiom.

Art of the States: Fred Lerdahl - Biographical material and details of his Fantasy Etudes with information on the performance by eighth blackbird. Includes entire piece in RAM audio, with a duration of 13:19.

Fred Lerdahl - Biography from the Living Composers Project noting academic career, writings, and musical works. Includes contact information.

Fred Lerdahl - Official faculty page from Columbia University Department of Music. Biography, selected publications, and selected compositions.

Fred Lerdahl's Attack on Serialism - Discussion of his published article "Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems", which explores the relationship between composing and listening.

Fred Lerdahl's "Wake" - Study of his music intersecting with the literature of James Joyce includes original commentary and CD liner notes.

Lerdahl, Fred Whitford - Brief biography noting studies and influences, work in composition and theory. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.