ABSTRACT
Analysis, one way or another, is an integral part of musical life. On a purely practical level, sight-reading or memorizing music would be impossible if we were not able to identify simple patterns and their repetition. Our response to music as listeners is also analytical in this broad sense: we cannot help but compare melodic, rhythmic and textural ideas to those we have already heard-either in the piece at hand, or in other works with which we are familiar. The moment we move beyond an unreflective, moment-by-moment apprehension of music, whether as performers or listeners, we have entered the realm of analysis.
