L'Analyse musicale, une pratique et son histoire - Campos, Rémy; Donin, Nicolas (Genève Droz, 2009)
This is not only a discourse on musical works, but also a practice involving reading, listening and writing. A group of historical musicologists and theorists/analysts, as well as researchers from other fields, explore in this book the origins and meanings of the seemingly banal gestures of analytical activity, including chord figuration, transcription, piano reduction, segmentation, inner listening, elaboration of an argument and the construction of charts, which are part and parcel of the analysts discourse and came together to comprise the discipline now known as music analysis. Taking examples from Wagnerian literature, transcriptions of electroacoustic works, the theoretical writings of Riemann, dIndy and Schoenberg, as well as the musical analyses of Leibowitz, Messiaen, Boulez, Rouget, Forte and Nattiez, this study traces the genealogy of this sphere of practical knowledge which is so prevalent in conservatories and universities, yet whose history remains obscure. French text.
Keywords: Musical analysis; Music history