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Analyzes the music composition "The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza," by György Kurtaacute;g in Great Britain. Discussion of the relationship between music and text; Limitations of ascribing fixed signification for motives over large expanses; Useful insight yielded from identifying intertextual links.

Focuses on the theory and history of music and multimedia in Great Britain. Aim to develop an analytical model for all musical multimedia; Fundamental types of relationship between music and individual media; Benefits of musicology and music analysis in the future of multimedia interpretation.

Examines five passages by classical composers to determine the role of unity in musical analysis. Argument against unity; Alternative analysis designed to show the argument dissolves once certain features of the music have been recognized; Mozart's Symphony in G minor; Brahms' String Quartet in C minor; Haydn's String Quartet in D minor; Mozart's Piano Concerto in C major; Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor.

Focuses on hearing first-movement recapitulations in Franz Josef Haydn's string quartets. Definitions of recapitulation; Techniques of recomposition in the earliest quartets; Quartet in F major, Op. 2 No. 4; Two early minor-key first movements; Op. 9 No. 4; Op. 17 No. 4; Two first movements from the "Sun" quartets; Op. 33; Later quartets.

Focuses on what it means to analyze music. Issues concerning the importance of organicism and unity in music; Change which has been underway in musicology since the 1970s; Joseph Kerman's call-to-order which echoed that shift away from positivism in historical musicology, advocating a parallel end to formalism in analysis.