Journal Article10.1086/448101
How We Got into Analysis, and How to Get out
TL;DR: The music critic's stock-in-trade consists of the "criticism of art and especially of literature" as mentioned in this paper, and the music critic may accept it grudgingly, keeping a higher end in view, or he may depend on it to hide what may gently be called his lack of intellectual rigor.
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Abstract: As a matter of general usage, the term "criticism" is applied to music in an anomalous and notably shallow way. This is regrettable but not easy to change so long as the usage has the consent of musicians and nonmusicians alike. When people say "music criticism," they almost invariably mean daily or weekly journalistic writing, writing which is prohibited from the extended, detailed, and complex mulling over of the matter at hand that is taken for granted in the criticism of art and especially of literature. Journalistic writing about music is posited on and formed by this prohibition. The music critic may accept it grudgingly, keeping a higher end in view, or he may depend on it to hide what may gently be called his lack of intellectual rigor; in any case, the prohibition is central to his metier. The music critic's stock-in-trade consists of the
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On the Analysis of Recent Music
TL;DR: In this paper, Cone defined analysis as an attempt to explain rather than merely describe music, and pointed out that analysis is no longer applicable to certain recent compositions, such as pieces that use chance procedures, those completely predetermined by serial operations, or those completely predicated on serial operations.
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