[Smt-talk] quick query

[Matthew Royal]

as several people have noted, Burmeister's is usually given as the  
first published music analysis.  Tinctoris does talk about the  
modality of Dufay's "Le Serviteur," but this is not normally  
identified as an analysis proper.  This, of course, raises the  
question of how we define analysis within a theoretical treatise.   
Some related questions are:

Must the passage contain the score of the piece? (Or, if it doesn't,  
is it just a commentary?)
How long must the excerpt be? (There are many 16th-century examples of  
snippets of pieces, or very short pieces).
Must exegesis of the piece be the end in itself? (Again, there are  
numerous 16th-century  examples of pieces cited to illustrate some  
point of theory, rather than to elucidate the pieces themselves).

Best

Matthew

Dr. Matthew S. Royal
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Department of Music
Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts
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