Table of Contents

Preface
William Marvin: Introduction to Writing Analytical Essays
Part I. Introduction to Analytical Topics and Techniques
Rhythm, Meter, and Phrase:
1: Charles Burkhart: The Phrase Rhythm (and willful slurs) of Chopin's A-flat Mazurka, Op. 59, No. 2
2: Harald Krebs: Hypermeter and Hypermetric Irregularity in the Songs of Josephine Lang
Pitch:
3: Schenker's Conception of Musical Structure, Allen Forte
4: Andrew Mead: "Learn to Draw Bob Hope!" Mort Drucker, Arnold Schoenberg, and Twelve-Tone Music
Form:
5: Ramon Satyendra: Analyzing the Unity within Contrast: Chic Corea's "Starlight"
6: John Covach: Form in Rock Music: A Primer
Musical Ambiguity:
7: Deborah Stein: Introduction to Musical Ambiguity
8: Edward T. Cone: Attacking a Brahms Puzzle
Part II. Model Essays: Text and Music
9: David B. Lewin: Figaro's Mistakes
10: Motive and Text in Four Schubert Songs, Carl Schachter
11: Patrick McCreless: Isolde's Transfiguration in Words and Music
12: Lori Burns: Meaning in a Popular Song: The Representation of Masochistic Desire in Sarah McLachlan's "Ice"
13: Janet Schmalfeldt: In Search of Purcell's Dido
Part III. Model Essays: Instrumental
Performance and Analysis:
14: Joel Lester: The Presto from Bach's G-Minor Sonata for Violin Solo: Style, Rhythm, and Form in a Baroque Moto Perpetuo
15: Marion A. Gluck: Dramatic Progression in Haydn, Sonata No. 46 in A-flat, Adagio
Form:
16: Roger Graybill: Formal and Expressive Intensification in Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8, Second Movement
17: William Rothstein: Playing with Forms: Mozart's Rondo in D Major, K. 485
Pitch:
18: Joseph N. Straus: Two Post-tonal Analyses, Webern, "Wie bin ich froh!" from Three Songs, Op. 25; Schoenberg, "Nacht," from Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
19: Richard Cohn: "This music crept by me upon the waters": Introverted Motives in Beethoven's "Tempest" Sonata
20: Charles J. Smith: Rounding Up the Usual Suspects?: The Enigmatic Narrative of Chopin's C-sharp Minor Prelude
Texture:
21: Judith Lochhead: Texture and Timbre in Barbara Kolb's Millefoglie for Chamber Orchestra and Computer-Generated Tape
Scores
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index