Abstract
This chapter presents the form of musical structure developed in A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM). GTTM takes as its goal the explication of the musical intuitions of a listener experienced in a musical idiom. By musical idiom is meant a particular genre or style of music, either broadly or narrowly defined. Musical intuition manifests itself in a variety of ways. A listener experienced in an idiom can make various sorts of judgments about pieces he has never heard before, such as whether it is a typical or an unusual example of the genre, whether the performer is making mistakes that result in ungrammatical configurations, or whether one part constitutes a repetition or variation of another. If one plays an instrument, one is more likely to be able to sight-read a piece in a familiar idiom than a piece in an unfamiliar one and even to unconsciously rectify errors in the printed music. In general, the characteristics of musical intuition suggest that there is more to hearing a piece of music than merely perceiving a sequence of notes.
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