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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Meter as RhythmMusic in Time: Phenomenology, Perception, Performance	18
Barbershop’s Cautionary Tale for Academic Music Theory: A Response to Stephen Lett	6
Contrapuntal Parody and Transsymphonic Narrative in Mahler’s Rondo-Burleske	6
Spreading the Word	4
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Commemorative Mimesis and Vocal Assertion in Red Velvet’s Borrowing of J. S. Bach’s Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3	4
Formalism as “Bad Magic”: Russian Orthodoxy, Eurocentrism, and Yuri Kholopov's Musical Logic	4
Extreme Meter Changes and Tempo Giusto in Some Songs by Brahms	3
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft	3
Qualia Motion in Fourier Space: Formalizing Linear, Nondirected, and Contrapuntal Ambiguity in Schoenberg’s Op. 19, No. 1	3
Abolitionist Music Theory and Marxism: Notes Toward a Reconciliation	3
Materiality of Sonic Imagery: On Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Compositions	3
Hermeneutic Limits; or, When Not to Theorize: Notes for Interpreting Our Phoenix by Trans Indigenous Mexican-American Composer Mari Esabel Valverde	3
An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege	3
Public Music Theory: A Way of Understanding	2
Music Theory and the SMT at 45: Perspectives on Inclusion	2
How SMT Could Become More Welcoming	2
Combinatorics, Composition, Copia: Mersenne’s Permutations as Rhetoric of Abundance	2
The Audience Chimera: On Platforms, Publics, and Power	2
Orienting to Pedagogical Service	2
Contributors	2
Attachments on Display: Music Analysis in the Public Sphere	2
Retracted Tonal Areas and the “Interrupted SK Exposition”: Circular Directionality in Early Nineteenth-Century Music	2
Focal Impulse Theory. By John Paul Ito	2
Rossinian Reiz : Strategic Musical Irritation and the Capturing of Attention	2
Undisciplined	1

Hidden Public Music Theory	1
Motivic Trees, Network Analysis, and Bartók’sEight Improvisations on Hungarian Folk Songs, No. 5	1
Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music. By Mariusz Kozak	1
Narrative and Tonal Structure in Herrmann’s Score for Vertigo	1
Writing (Re)Considered	1
Contributors	1
Contributors	1
Varied Ostinato and the Functions of Repetition in Harrison Birtwistle’s “Frieze 2” and “Frieze 3”	1
The Romanticization of the Rounded Binary Form in Robert Schumann’s Piano Works	1
Bins, Spans, and Tolerance: Three Theories of Microtiming Behavior	1
Leitmotivic Strategies in Nobuo Uematsu’sFinal FantasySoundtracks	1
Queer Ear: Remaking 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
I Don’t Hear It That Way: Temporal Parallax, Metal, and Music Theory’s “Listener”	1
Correction to: review of Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft	1
Naamyam, Creative Music, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s “Burial Mound”	1
The Royal Road Progression in Japanese Popular Music	1
Contributors	1
A Spectrum of Audiences for Music Theory, and Some Ways to Connect with Them	0
Sounds as They Are: The Unwritten Music in Classical Recordings	0
Public Music Theory: A Note from the Editorial Team	0
Correction to: Book review of Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song. By Matt BaileyShea	0
Rotation- and Inversion-Based Arrays as Reflections of Harmonic Conceptions in Boulez’s Compositional Practice	0
On Livestreaming and the Collaborative Potential of Public Music Theory	0
Theorizing Musical Improvisation for Social Analysis	0
Texture as Form in Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel	0
The Predominant Six-Four in the Late Music of Richard Strauss	0
Content Warning	0
Take Care	0
Making a Home of The Society for Music Theory, Inc.	0
The Hidden Politics of (Public) Music Theory	0
Stage-Speech Melody: Musicality, Contour Transformations, and Dramatic Narrative in Yao Chen’s Kunqü Opera Pipa Plays Opera (2015)	0
Exploring the Uncanny: Musical “Corruption” in Horror Video Games	0
Effects of Parallelism on Meter and Grouping	0
On Figaro’s Alleged Minuet and Some Challenges and Opportunities of Topic Theory	0
Interpreting Vocal Timbre	0
Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song	0
Graphing Deep Hypermeter in the Scherzo Movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony	0
Open Strings: Manipulations of Time, Distance, and Pitch Space	0
Her Music Academia: A Public Scholarship Initiative	0
Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination	0
Mozart’s Operatic Cadence	0
Protest Chants as Public Music Theory	0
Waiting for the Schlußsatz : Layers of Return in the Slow Movements of Joseph Haydn’s String Quartets, Opp. 9, 17, and 20	0
Who Does the Society for Music Theory Gather?	0
Performing Te: Gesture and Timbre in Fujikura Dai’s neo for Solo Shamisen	0
Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater	0
The Limited and The Limitless: Harmonic Voltas and Puns in the Third Movement of Ben Johnston’s Seventh String Quartet	0
Harassment and Public Music Theory	0

Radically Inconspicuous Absence: Truncated Sonata Forms in Interwar Paris	0
How Music Theory Went Online	0
Formal Excess in the Opening Movement of Fanny Hensel’s String Quartet in E♭ Major (1834)	0
Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Humāyūn in Persian Art Music	0
Models for Mozart’s Transitions: A Transatlantic Exchange	0
The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions	0
Antifocal Anaphoras in Hip-Hop Vocals	0
“It is Beethoven who leads the Reigen ”: A. B. Marx and the Dance of Jewish-German Assimilation	0
Music Theory Influencing: The Content Creator “Musicpreneur”	0
How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form	0
Diatonic Voice-Leading Transformations	0
Cadence: A Study of Closure in Tonal Music	0
Lyricist as Analyst: Rhyme Scheme as Music-Setting in the Great American Songbook	0
Correction to: Naamyam, Creative Music, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s “Burial Mound”	0
When Intra- and Interthematic Functions Collide: Conflation in Robert Schumann’s Orchestral Sonata Forms	0
Adventures in Tonal Gravity: George Russell’s Analysis of Maurice Ravel’s “Forlane”	0
Correction: review of An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege	0
Private Music Theory	0
O Give Me a Home	0
Correction to: Corpus Studies, Sonata Typology, and the Nineteenth-Century Violin Concerto: Viotti, Saint-Saëns, and the Challenge of Recapitulatory Compression	0
Public Music Theory: An Introduction	0
Contributors	0
Hexachordal Solmization and Syllable-Invariant Counterpoint in the Vocal Music of William Byrd	0
How Sign Language Analyzes Musical Form	0
“Let’s Think in Layers”: On Twenty-First-Century Instruments of Public Music Theory	0
Re-imagining Bach in Hans van Manen’s Choreographies	0
La maturation artistique de Debussy dans son contexte historique (1884–1902)	0
Long-form Non-isochrony and Implicit Music Theory: Cyclicity and Entrainment in Colombian Cantos de Boga	0
On Schemas in Tonal Jazz Repertoire	0
Closed, Closing, and Close to Closure: The Nineteenth-Century “Closing Theme” Problem as Exemplified in Mendelssohn’s Sonata Practice	0
“Chords of Inquiry”: Alternate Guitar Tunings, Harmony, and Text-Music Relations in Joni Mitchell’s Early Songs	0