Réti is best remembered today for his distinctive method of musical analysis, which he called thematic process. This technique consisted of taking short melodic motifs and tracing their repetition and development through the piece. Rhythm is completely ignored.
Reti's analytical procedure is best understood concurrently to the work of other contemporary German analysts of the time such as Shenker and Schonberg.
Thus in Reti's analysis the "thematic process" is explored, in Schenker the analysis takes the form of a reductionist procedure, and in Schoenberg the unity of a musical work from a "Grundgestalt" (basic shape) is asserted.
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