In this episode of Talking Musicology we discuss articles by Lydia Goehr on the art of preparation and preluding and Scott Gleason on phenomenological analysis and the music of Otomo Yoshihide.

Lydia Goehr, ‘Does it Matter Where We Begin? Or, On the Art of Preparation and Preluding,’ in MTO: a Journal of the Society for Music Theory, Volume 21, Number 3, September 2015.
Article online: http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.15.21.3/mto.15.21.3.goehr.html

Scott Gleason, ‘Analysis as Improvisation: A Phenomenology of Otomo Yoshihide’s Anode 2,’ in Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Winter 2015), pp. 121-141.
Preview: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7757/persnewmusi.53.1.0121?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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