ABSTRACT
This chapter is structured according to the sonata form, treats a music score like a legal text and aims to apply legal methodology to musical analysis. However, the wealth of experience accumulated in traditional legal methodology may aid in discovering the message(s) of a musical work. Legal methodology comprises the entirety of rules in the context of interpreting normative texts. Thus, the determination of the intentions, goals, and associated ideas is more difficult with regard to legal methodology. Quotations from other compositions can shed light on the context of a musical idea, similar to the manner in which the logical approach uses case law and precedents in legal methodology. The grammatical analysis made it possible to determine the final text of the last piano sonata as intended by Viktor Ullmann, as well as to derive a better understanding of his hauntingly prophetic inscription on the cover page.
