ABSTRACT
Analyzing early music is a venture with a rich history of provoking spirited exchanges within the musicological community. Articulating the problems associated with analyzing early music while proposing new analytical methods and techniques, as the present volume aims to do, brings a number of previously unstated assumptions about the activity of music analysis to the fore and highlights its place in intellectual inquiry. Exploring less conventional methods of analysis while reexamining the relevance of more traditional analytical approaches subjects many currently accepted views of the role of analysis to scrutiny and opens the possibility that analysis can critique and affect established ways of practicing musicology.
