[AMS-announce] CONF: "Music, Language, and the Mind, " Tufts Univ., Medford Mass., July 2008

[Announcements for the AMS]

Tufts University is hosting a conference on music and language July 10-13, 2008 at the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center.  Music, Language, and the Mind follows the successful conference held at Cambridge University, UK in May 2007 on music and language as cognitive systems.

We will also be honoring Ray Jackendoff, Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy at Tufts, and Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor of Music at Columbia University.  This year marks the 25th anniversary of their seminal work 'A Generative Theory of Tonal Music'.

For more information about the conference,  please visit our website at: http://musicandlanguage.tufts.edu/ for further details.

The website to register can be found at: www.regonline.com/TuftsMusic. If you have any questions about registration, please contact the Provost's Office at 617-627-3931.

Speakers will include:
Alfred Cramer, Pomona College
Daniel Dennett, Tufts University
John Halle, Bard Conservatory of Music
Bruce Hayes, UCLA
Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Fred Lerdahl, Columbia University
Elizabeth West Marvin, Eastman School of Music
Lawrence Parsons, Sheffield University
Aniruddh Patel, Neurosciences Institute
David Pesetsky, MIT
Robert Remez, Columbia University
Gottfried Schlaug, Harvard University
Barbara Tillman, Eastman School of Music
Mark Tramo, Harvard University