On the Nature of Subjectivity in Music Analysis: Some Observations on Analysing an Early Score by Philip Glass

This paper originated as a contribution to research on musical perception and cognition as part of the IDyOM project. Offered as a chapter in a volume including a wide range of approaches to “music and/as process”, we here focus directly on listening strategies to show how contrasting approaches to listening to minimalist music can lead to very different listening “narratives” when engaging with this repertoire.