ABSTRACT
A framework and process for recording analysis is articulated, with its guiding principles and concepts. The framework is directed toward revealing the unique qualities of the individual recorded song, and how the recording shapes the track. An examination of the record and recorded music sets the context for the study of recording analysis. Further establishing this context is an examination of the issues surrounding analyzing the record’s three domains (music, lyrics and recording), and the outside disciplines—sociology and psychology, literature and journalism, semiotics and hermeneutics, the affects and phenomenology, and others—that might inform recording analysis.
