"How does it work?": Challenges to analytic explanation

Charles Dodge's Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental poses a challenge to a musical analyst seeking to explain "how it works." For piano and computer-generated tape, including a sample from the famed tenor Caruso singing Leoncavallo's "Vesti la giubba," Dodge's piece challenges notions of what counts as the work's structural elements and how the analyst gathers evidence about them. The article proposes an analysis of Any Resemblance that addresses these challenges.