ABSTRACT
Focus on strategy or premise reveals a great deal about the dramatic narrative of a work and can therefore speak more directly to performers. The distinction between premises and other interesting features of a work is drawn in the analysis of the Barcarolle. Such features as duple versus triple metre or the interval of a sixth, for instance, are elevated to the role of premises in Op. 48 and the Barcarolle respectively, although their use in other compositions may not be of such formative importance.
