Models of Musical Analysis: Music Before 1600.

ed. Mark Everist (Oxford: Blackwekkm 1992), 45[pounds]

This book implies a certain guilt. Cautiously though Mark Everist has phrased his Introduction, he gives the impression that writers about music before 1600 have generally been negligent in the pursuit of serious analysis. would suggest that the boot is very much on the other foot: in general the trend-setters in musical analysis have concentrated their work on a relatively small repertory of standard-issue classics. Schenker notoriously ignored (or rather, discarded) anything early. But ever that is a half-truth: as early as 1935 Felix Salzer devoted his doctoral thesis to applying Schenkerian techniques to early music, albeit going as late as Bach; and since then trend-setters including Treitler, Schachter, Dahlhaus, Novak, Powers, Ruwet and Kerman (to mention only a few of them) have put enormous effort into formal' analysis of pre-1600 music. Their lead is …