[Thor Joachim Haga]

But context can be many things. Whole institutions exist that research and analyse music. It’s one thing to describe – in technical terms – the music on a superficial level, but the best analyses provide interpretation. Many classical album liner notes have this (in addition to all the other things, like the circumstances of the work’s creation). I would love it if soundtracks had that too; just describing and interpreting what the music does on its own. But that’s all very unlikely, of course.