Article Title：Analysis as interpretation: Interaction, intentionality, invention
Abstract：
This essay advocates analysis of the human-music interaction that articulates what the music does to or for someone (e.g., that it confuses, astonishes, or moves a listener), and how it does so. To connect analysis to musical sensibility, I reframe it as interpretation in the everyday sense in which things are open to interpretation, or in which an interpretation is an account of something that might be taken in a number of ways. I draw together four ideas under this umbrella; analysis as: (1) a meeting between an individual and some music; (2) a characteristic expression of its author; (3) experiences with music; and (4) conceptual and verbal invention. What I advocate might also be called a humanistic psychology of music.
Keywords: analysis; interpretation; criticism; intentionality; meaning
DOI: 10.1525/mts.2006.28.2.191
Source：MUSIC THEORY SPECTRUM
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