The first collection of its kind, emEngaging Music Essays in Music Analysisem includes twenty-two selections by highly esteemed contemporary music theorists, sixteen of which were written especially for this volume. Featuring work by such luminaries as Charles Burkhart, Edward T. Cone, Allen Forte, David B. Lewin, and Carl Schachter, the book is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in form and analysis. It also serves as an invaluable reference for music teachers, students, and musicians. br Opening with an introduction to writing analytical essays, emEngaging Musicem then presents introductory readings that describe analytical approaches to rhythm, meter, and phrase pitch twelve-tone music form in jazz and rock music and musical ambiguity. The following essays offer exemplary models of analysis that cover a wide range of composers, from the Baroque Purcell and Bach and the Classical Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart to the 19th-century Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, an