Download or read book Music Analysis as Poetry: Musical Transformation, Mathematics, and Meaning written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents a theory of the transformational analysis of music. It explores ways in which musical transformation, mathematics, and meaning can be integrated, through a critical reading of David Lewin's and several contemporary philosophers' works on language, system, and poetic experience.