Musical Analyses and Musical Exegesis

Here translated for the first time, Jean-Jacques Nattiez''s widely hailed comparative guide to the techniques of music analysis focuses on a single vivid passage from Wagner''s Tristan and Isolde.

The field of musicology has in recent decades branched out to incorporate methods from a wide range of other fields. But, when scholars examine a musical work, to what extent should they emphasize immanen...