This paper explores the relationship between musical performance and analysis. After looking at some selected analyses of a musical excerpt, we will then listen to a couple of recordings of the passage performed by different artists to show how musical performance plays a significant role in either encouraging or discouraging a particular analysis. Listening to recordings will reveal how a performer's physiological actions figure into our overall understanding of a musical analysis. By comparing different performances, we are reminded that our analytical understanding is not based solely on features of the score, but also on features of performance. This raises questions about the nature of some of our music analyses, and the relationship between the musical score, performance, and discourse. For instance, if a performer does not encourage a particular analysis of a piece, does that analysis even exist? Are some of our musical analyses based more on the performer's actions than that which we see in the score? Listening to performances opens up avenues to musical understanding and expressive meaning that the score may not as readily access.