Talk:Macro analysis

Question
Could the reference to the site macromusic.org be made clickable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 05:16, January 13, 2010‎ (talk) 91.84.126.143 (UTC)

MACRO
MACRO is irrelevant in this article. This article is about macro analysis, not about an organization. Therefore that section should be removed. --Leejoe Schar (talk) 18:28, 14 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Specifically, the Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization. Hyacinth (talk) 08:37, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Noteworthy?
Is this a suitable subject for its own entry in Wikipedia? "Macro analysis" seems from the article to be a name adopted by just one textbook, which uses the term to denote the common first step in a harmonic analysis, namely identifying chord roots and inversions -- to which it adds identifying progressions by fifth motion at this stage rather than at the next (roman-numeral) stage, while apparently ignoring other sorts of harmonic progressions.

It is not clear from this article whether the term "macro analysis" has ever been used by other authors in peer-reviewed publications. Has it? Can a reliable source be cited for its use outside of a single author's not especially influential, authoritative, or influential textbook (albeit one from a respected textbook publisher)?

And why is the procedure called "macro analysis"? -- it doesn't seem on casual inspection to have a "macro" aspect. Like roman-numeral "analysis" it isn't really analysis at all, but a sort of parsing preliminary to actual analysis, but we are used to that particular abuse of terminology, so I'd happily settle for just an explanation of what is "macro" about it.

72.76.5.118 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:40, 1 January 2014 (UTC)


 * It doesn't involve specific notes, specific voicings, and often doesn't involve specific inversions. It doesn't involve specific notes of specific rhythms. Like Roman numeral analysis without figured bass, it is a "big picture" view rather than a "tiny detail" view. The metaphor is visual, see: macroscopic and microscopic. Hyacinth (talk) 08:40, 6 July 2019 (UTC)