Music Analysis in Popular and Western Art Musicologies: Interpretation and Power from Trichotomies of Down Under and Pathétique (IV–Adagio lamentoso)

Abstract

This master’s thesis explores the scope arising between some of the diffèrent analytical methods found across popular musicology and western art musicology. As a vehicle in this exercise, the contrasting cases of Men At Work’s Down Under and the final movement of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony (Pathétique), Adagio lamentoso, are subject to bi- and tripartite analyses articulated on at least two levels, and from a range of diffèrent musicological perspectives (ranging from cultural analysis to "old-school" formal analysis).