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Papers

(The median citation count of Music Theory Spectrum is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrapuntal Parody and Transsymphonic Narrative in Mahler’s Rondo-Burleske	14
Meter as RhythmMusic in Time: Phenomenology, Perception, Performance	14
Barbershop’s Cautionary Tale for Academic Music Theory: A Response to Stephen Lett	6
Spreading the Word	5
Materiality of Sonic Imagery: On Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Compositions	5
Hermeneutic Limits; or, When Not to Theorize: Notes for Interpreting Our Phoenix by Trans Indigenous Mexican-American Composer Mari Esabel Valverde	4
Extreme Meter Changes and Tempo Giusto in Some Songs by Brahms	4
Apparently Imperfect: On the Analytical Issues of the IAC	4
An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege	3
Abolitionist Music Theory and Marxism: Notes Toward a Reconciliation	3
Bang your Head: Construing Beat through Familiar Drum Patterns in Metal Music	3
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft	3
From Exoticism to Interculturalism: Counterframing the East–West Binary	3
Merging the Sonata and the Concerto: The Role of Virtuosic Passages in Determining Formal Closure in High-Classical Sonata Expositions	2
Focal Impulse Theory. By John Paul Ito	2
Music Theory and the SMT at 45: Perspectives on Inclusion	2
Contributors	2
Public Music Theory: A Way of Understanding	2
Living Toys in Thomas Adès’s Living Toys: Transforming the Post-Tonal Topic	2
Attachments on Display: Music Analysis in the Public Sphere	2
Rossinian Reiz: Strategic Musical Irritation and the Capturing of Attention	2
The Audience Chimera: On Platforms, Publics, and Power	2
Segmentation, Phrasing, and Meter in Hip-Hop Music	2
How SMT Could Become More Welcoming	2
Orienting to Pedagogical Service	2

Correction	1
Narrative and Tonal Structure in Herrmann’s Score for Vertigo	1
Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music. By Mariusz Kozak	1
Leitmotivic Strategies in Nobuo Uematsu’sFinal FantasySoundtracks	1
Undisciplined	1
Varied Ostinato and the Functions of Repetition in Harrison Birtwistle’s “Frieze 2” and “Frieze 3”	1
Motivic Trees, Network Analysis, and Bartók’sEight Improvisations on Hungarian Folk Songs, No. 5	1
Contributors	1
Bins, Spans, and Tolerance: Three Theories of Microtiming Behavior	1
Writing (Re)Considered	1
Correction	1
Combinatorics, Composition, Copia: Mersenne’s Permutations as Rhetoric of Abundance	1
Correction to: review of Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft	1
Hexachordal Solmization and Syllable-Invariant Counterpoint in the Vocal Music of William Byrd	1
Hidden Public Music Theory	1
Corpus Studies, Sonata Typology, and the Nineteenth-Century Violin Concerto: Viotti, Saint-Saëns, and the Challenge of Recapitulatory Compression	1
Zarlino’sComporre di fantasiaand Canon	1
Contributors	1
The Royal Road Progression in Japanese Popular Music	1
Naamyam, Creative Music, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s “Burial Mound”	1
Erratum	1
Contributors	1
Music Theory Splintered Up, Not Broken Down: The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory. Edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings	1
A Grid in Flux: Sound and Timing in Electronic Dance Music	1
Becoming and Beyond: Applying Goethe’s Progressive and Retrogressive Metamorphosis to Fanny Hensel’s Piano Sonatas	1
To “Fill Up, Completely, the Whole Capacity of the Mind”: Listening with Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland	0
The Times are A-Changin’: Metric Flexibility and Text Expression in 1960s and 1970s Singer-Songwriter Music	0
Adventures in Tonal Gravity: George Russell’s Analysis of Maurice Ravel’s “Forlane”	0
Stage-Speech Melody: Musicality, Contour Transformations, and Dramatic Narrative in Yao Chen’s Kunqü Opera Pipa Plays Opera (2015)	0
When All You Have is a Hammer: Surface/Depth as Good Comparison	0
Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical. By Roger Matthew Grant.	0
Making a Home of The Society for Music Theory, Inc.	0
Radically Inconspicuous Absence: Truncated Sonata Forms in Interwar Paris	0
Performing Te: Gesture and Timbre in Fujikura Dai’s neo for Solo Shamisen	0
The Limited and The Limitless: Harmonic Voltas and Puns in the Third Movement of Ben Johnston’s Seventh String Quartet	0
Private Music Theory	0
Graphing Deep Hypermeter in the Scherzo Movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony	0
Sounds as They Are: The Unwritten Music in Classical Recordings	0
In Search of Carl Czerny’s Schemata: Listening to Early Nineteenth-Century Improvisation	0
The Hidden Politics of (Public) Music Theory	0
Who Does the Society for Music Theory Gather?	0
Melodic Transformation in George Garzone’s Triadic Chromatic Approach; or, Jazz, Math, and Basket Weaving	0
A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice. By Victoria Malawey	0
A Spectrum of Audiences for Music Theory, and Some Ways to Connect with Them	0
Protest Chants as Public Music Theory	0
George Balanchine’s Art of Choreographic Musicality in Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux	0
“Let’s Think in Layers”: On Twenty-First-Century Instruments of Public Music Theory	0
The Predominant Six-Four in the Late Music of Richard Strauss	0
Models for Mozart’s Transitions: A Transatlantic Exchange	0
Music Theory Influencing: The Content Creator “Musicpreneur”	0

Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Humāyūn in Persian Art Music	0
Take Care	0
Fine-Tuning a Global History of Music Theory: Divergences, Zhu Zaiyu, and Music-Theoretical Instruments	0
Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos. By Andrew Hicks	0
The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions	0
On Figaro’s Alleged Minuet and Some Challenges and Opportunities of Topic Theory	0
How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form	0
Correction to: Naamyam, Creative Music, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s “Burial Mound”	0
Structure and Variable Formal Function in Schubert’s Three-Key Expositions	0
Formal Excess in the Opening Movement of Fanny Hensel’s String Quartet in E♭ Major (1834)	0
On Schemas in Tonal Jazz Repertoire	0
When Intra- and Interthematic Functions Collide: Conflation in Robert Schumann’s Orchestral Sonata Forms	0
Closed, Closing, and Close to Closure: The Nineteenth-Century “Closing Theme” Problem as Exemplified in Mendelssohn’s Sonata Practice	0
Harassment and Public Music Theory	0
Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination	0
Lyricist as Analyst: Rhyme Scheme as Music-Setting in the Great American Songbook	0
Public Music Theory: A Note from the Editorial Team	0
On Livestreaming and the Collaborative Potential of Public Music Theory	0
Public Music Theory: An Introduction	0
Correction: review of An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege	0
Theorizing Musical Improvisation for Social Analysis	0
How Music Theory Went Online	0
Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater	0
Ravel’s Octatonic Scripts	0
Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song	0
Follow the Solo: The Formal Evolution of the Concerto in the Eighteenth-Century	0
Antifocal Anaphoras in Hip-Hop Vocals	0
Her Music Academia: A Public Scholarship Initiative	0
Correction to: Book review of Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song. By Matt BaileyShea	0
O Give Me a Home	0
Contributors	0
Undersurface Sequences	0
Content Warning	0
Diatonic Voice-Leading Transformations	0
Contributors	0
Norms of Textual Scansion and Rhyme in Beatles AABA Forms	0