<P> Analysis is an activity most often engaged in by musicologists and most often applied to western classical music , although music of non-western cultures and of unnotated oral traditions is also often analysed . An analysis can be conducted on a single piece of music , on a portion or element of a piece or on a collection of pieces . A musicologist 's stance is his or her analytical situation . This includes the physical dimension or corpus being studied , the level of stylistic relevance studied , and whether the description provided by the analysis is of its immanent structure , compositional ( or poietic ) processes , perceptual ( or esthesic ) processes ( Nattiez 1990 , 135 -- 36 ) , all three , or a mixture . </P>
<P> Analysis is an activity most often engaged in by musicologists and most often applied to western classical music , although music of non-western cultures and of unnotated oral traditions is also often analysed . An analysis can be conducted on a single piece of music , on a portion or element of a piece or on a collection of pieces . A musicologist 's stance is his or her analytical situation . This includes the physical dimension or corpus being studied , the level of stylistic relevance studied , and whether the description provided by the analysis is of its immanent structure , compositional ( or poietic ) processes , perceptual ( or esthesic ) processes ( Nattiez 1990 , 135 -- 36 ) , all three , or a mixture . </P>
a person who analyzes musical compositions and musical systems is a
a person who analyzes musical compositions and musical systems is a
musicologists
musicologists