Musical analysis

Musical analysis can be defined as a process attempting to answer the question "how does this music work?". The method employed to answer this question, and indeed exactly what is meant by the question, differs from analyst to analyst. According to Ian Bent (Bent, 1987), analysis is "an approach and method can be traced back to the 1750s ... it existed as a scholarly tool, albeit an auxiliary one, from the Middle Ages onwards."

Sources

• Bauer, Amy (2004). "cognition, Constraints, and Conceptual Blends in Modernist Music", The Pleasure of Modernist Music, Ashby, Arved, ed.
• Bent, Ian (1987). Analysis. London: McMillan Press. ISBN 0333417321.
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• Blacking, John (1973). How Musical Is Man?. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
• Laloy, L. (1902). "Sur deux accords", Revue musicale. Reprinted in La musique retrouvée. Paris: Plon, 1928, pp.115-18.
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• Christ, W., et al. (1967). Materials and Structure of Music. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
• Stein, Deborah (2005). Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195170105.
• Satyendra, Ramon. "Analyzing the Unity within Contrast: Chick Corea's 'Starlight'".
• Cone, Edward (?). "Analysis Today", Music: A View from Delft", p.39-54.