Developing Analysis Criteria Based on Denis Smalley's Timbre Theories

This paper represents part one of a two-part process. The aim in part one is to outline a number of Denis Smalley’s theories and to create a framework that could provide the criteria to analyse his musical works. The second part of the process would be to actually analyse the one or more works according to the identified criteria. A substantial part of the current paper is an attempt to summarise and make comment on a Smalley article. Having identified the key concepts, the paper establishes relationships between the concepts and proposes a methodology for analysis.