ABSTRACT
The renovation of analytical inquiry entails reconception of the high modern concept of structure and the methods and concepts of investigating, mapping, and speculating about music. The critical stance involved in investigation of the hermeneutical dimensions of musical understanding is crucial to the author's larger project here-that of reconceiving structure. The following discussion considers each and lays out some strategies for investigating music from micro- and macro-perspectives. For present purposes, macroperceptual investigations focus specifically on the situated roles of creator, performer, and analyst; the cultural, social, historical situation of the work; and the situation of the work's reception. The goal of this research is not to conduct a comprehensive study of how an audience might respond to a work; rather it is to investigate existing responses to the work, creator, and performers. A productive analysis can only be successful if the analyst participates directly in hermeneutical knowing, hermeneutical hearing, of a work.
