Analytic Diversity and Institutional Discourse: Views of Beethoven, String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132, I

As part of a larger project to show how a critical anti-foundationalism can be reconciled with the hegemonic biases of music analysis based on simple hierarchies, this essay examines multiple analyses and disciplinary discourse in published readings of Beethoven, String Quartet, Op. 132, first movement (Agawu, McClary, Chua, and Morgan, along with responses). Paul B. Armstrong's model for literary criticism intervenes in this proliferation to provide a framework for comparison and evaluation