[Smt-talk] Burmeister & analysis

[Michael Morse]

If we consider "analysis" to be a more or less detailed discussion of a particular piece [Lasso] that connects its details to a general notion of music or musical action [rhetoric], sure. The more I think about this, the more it seems to me that analysis means little more than making a connection between musical details and a broader essential conception.

Michael MorseTrent UniversityPeterborough, Oshawa

Is that an analysis in any modern (or less modern) sense of the
      word? I really doubt so. Certainly, Burmeister's concern with the
      rhetorical organization of a musical composition is a landmark in
      the history of music theory and analysis; but was his an
      "analysis"?

 		 	   		  
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