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📖 "The practical process of examining pieces of music in order to discover, or decide, how they work … is fascinating, because when you analyse a piece of music you are in effect recreating it for yourself; you end up with the same sense of possession that a composer feels for a piece he has written. Analysing, … you develop a kind of intimacy with it [music] that can hardly be achieved in any other way. You have a vivid sense of communicating directly with the masters if the past, which can be one of the most exhilarating experiences that music has to offer. And you develop an intuitive knowledge of what works in music and what doesn't, what's right and what isn't, that far exceeds your capacity to formulate such things in words or to explain them intellectually."
Nicholas Cook A Guide to Musical Analysis

📖 "Analysis of musical works is an inquiry into their formal construction, both as regards the subdivision of themes into phrases, sections, and motives, and the way in which they are combined and transformed, also period formation, order of modulation, etc. Analysis of this sort is one of the most important duties of music schools, but it has been made light of, or altogether neglected. In recent times, short analyses of the works to be performed, together with historical remarks, have appeared on concert programmes. This system of analytical programmes sprang up in England about the middle of this [19th] century."
Hugo Riemann Dictionary of Music (1896)

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📖 "There is something fascinating about the very idea of analysing music. For music is surely among the most baffling of the arts in its power to move people profoundly whether or not they have any technical expertise or intellectual understanding of it. It moves people involuntarily, even subliminally, and yet all this is done by means of the most apparently precise and rational techniques. If a few combinations of pitches, durations, timbres and dynamic values can unlock the most hidden contents of man's spiritual and emotional being, then the study of music should be the key to an understanding of man's nature. Music is a code in which the deepest secrets of humanity are written: this heady thought assured musical studies their place in ancient, medieval and renaissance thought. And though the study of music no longer occupies quite so elevated a role in intellectual circles, some of today's most important trends in the human sciences still owe it a debt."
Nicholas Cook A Guide to Musical Analysis

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