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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Music Theory’s White Racial Frame	26
Getting to Count	15
Making a Home of The Society for Music Theory, Inc.	13
Bang your Head: Construing Beat through Familiar Drum Patterns in Metal Music	9
Segmentation, Phrasing, and Meter in Hip-Hop Music	6
Steve Reich’s Signature Rhythm and an Introduction to Rhythmic Qualities	6
From Exoticism to Interculturalism: Counterframing the East–West Binary	5
A Grid in Flux: Sound and Timing in Electronic Dance Music	5
Music Theory’s Therapeutic Imperative and the Tyranny of the Normal	4
To “Fill Up, Completely, the Whole Capacity of the Mind”: Listening with Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland	3
Rethinking Sonata Failure: Mendelssohn’s OvertureZum Märchen von der schönen Melusine	3
The Times are A-Changin’: Metric Flexibility and Text Expression in 1960s and 1970s Singer-Songwriter Music	3
Naming the Frames that Shape Us	3
End-Accented Sentences: Towards a Theory of Phrase-Rhythmic Progression	3
Norms of Textual Scansion and Rhyme in Beatles AABA Forms	2
George Balanchine’s Art of Choreographic Musicality in Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux	2
Materiality of Sonic Imagery: On Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Compositions	2
Abolitionist Music Theory and Marxism: Notes Toward a Reconciliation	2
Perceiving the Mosaic: Form in the Mashups of DJ Earworm	2
“Musique cannibale”: The Evolving Sound of Indigeneity in Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Tres poêmas indigenas	2
Undisciplined	2
Who Does the Society for Music Theory Gather?	2
Barbershop’s Cautionary Tale for Academic Music Theory: A Response to Stephen Lett	2
Tropological Interaction and Expressive Interpretation in Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Works	2
Metric Manipulations in Post-Tonal Music	2

Orienting to Pedagogical Service	2
Merging the Sonata and the Concerto: The Role of Virtuosic Passages in Determining Formal Closure in High-Classical Sonata Expositions	2
On the Nonindependent Parts of Time-Consciousness: Husserl’s Early Phenomenological Investigations and the Perception of Melody	1
Models for Mozart’s Transitions: A Transatlantic Exchange	1
O Give Me a Home	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
The Predominant Six-Four in the Late Music of Richard Strauss	1
Becoming and Beyond: Applying Goethe’s Progressive and Retrogressive Metamorphosis to Fanny Hensel’s Piano Sonatas	1
Structure and Variable Formal Function in Schubert’s Three-Key Expositions	1
Follow the Solo: The Formal Evolution of the Concerto in the Eighteenth-Century	1
Ravel’s Octatonic Scripts	1
Formal Excess in the Opening Movement of Fanny Hensel’s String Quartet in E♭ Major (1834)	1
Webs of Meaning in John Corigliano’s Tarantellas	1
Apparently Imperfect: On the Analytical Issues of the IAC	1
Contributors	1
How SMT Could Become More Welcoming	1
Bins, Spans, and Tolerance: Three Theories of Microtiming Behavior	1
Radically Inconspicuous Absence: Truncated Sonata Forms in Interwar Paris	1
Correction: review of An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege	0
Living Toys in Thomas Adès’s Living Toys: Transforming the Post-Tonal Topic	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Music Theory and the SMT at 45: Perspectives on Inclusion	0
Contributors	0
Meter as RhythmMusic in Time: Phenomenology, Perception, Performance	0
An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege	0
Foundations of Musical Grammar. By Lawrence M. Zbikowski	0
Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical. By Roger Matthew Grant.	0
Melodic Transformation in George Garzone’s Triadic Chromatic Approach; or, Jazz, Math, and Basket Weaving	0
Hermeneutic Limits; or, When Not to Theorize: Notes for Interpreting Our Phoenix by Trans Indigenous Mexican-American Composer Mari Esabel Valverde	0
The Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions	0
Hexachordal Solmization and Syllable-Invariant Counterpoint in the Vocal Music of William Byrd	0
In Search of Carl Czerny’s Schemata: Listening to Early Nineteenth-Century Improvisation	0
Erratum	0
Motivic Trees, Network Analysis, and Bartók’sEight Improvisations on Hungarian Folk Songs, No. 5	0
Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song	0
Leitmotivic Strategies in Nobuo Uematsu’sFinal FantasySoundtracks	0
The Limited and The Limitless: Harmonic Voltas and Puns in the Third Movement of Ben Johnston’s Seventh String Quartet	0
Voice Leading: The Science Behind a Musical Art. By David Huron. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016, vii + 263 pages	0
Correction to: Book review of Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song. By Matt BaileyShea	0
Music, Analysis, and the Body: Experiments, Explorations, and Embodiments.Edited by Nicholas Reyland and Rebecca Thumpston	0
Musical Illusions and Phantom Words: How Music and Speech Unlock Mysteries of the Brain. By Diana Deutsch	0
Fine-Tuning a Global History of Music Theory: Divergences, Zhu Zaiyu, and Music-Theoretical Instruments	0
Theorizing Musical Improvisation for Social Analysis	0
Closed, Closing, and Close to Closure: The Nineteenth-Century “Closing Theme” Problem as Exemplified in Mendelssohn’s Sonata Practice	0
Combinatorics, Composition, Copia: Mersenne’s Permutations as Rhetoric of Abundance	0
Take Care	0
Adventures in Tonal Gravity: George Russell’s Analysis of Maurice Ravel’s “Forlane”	0
Content Warning	0
Correction	0

Correction	0
Correction to: review of Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft	0
When All You Have is a Hammer: Surface/Depth as Good Comparison	0
Contributors	0
Diatonic Voice-Leading Transformations	0
Erratum	0
A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice. By Victoria Malawey	0
Lyricist as Analyst: Rhyme Scheme as Music-Setting in the Great American Songbook	0
Contributors	0
Zarlino’sComporre di fantasiaand Canon	0
The Enigma of Entropy in Extended Tonality	0
Focal Impulse Theory. By John Paul Ito	0
Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos. By Andrew Hicks	0
Contributors	0
On Figaro’s Alleged Minuet and Some Challenges and Opportunities of Topic Theory	0
Naamyam, Creative Music, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s “Burial Mound”	0
Contrapuntal Parody and Transsymphonic Narrative in Mahler’s Rondo-Burleske	0
Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music. By Mariusz Kozak	0
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft	0
Correction to: Naamyam, Creative Music, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s “Burial Mound”	0
Undersurface Sequences	0
Performing Te: Gesture and Timbre in Fujikura Dai’s neo for Solo Shamisen	0
When Intra- and Interthematic Functions Collide: Conflation in Robert Schumann’s Orchestral Sonata Forms	0
The Royal Road Progression in Japanese Popular Music	0
Extreme Meter Changes and Tempo Giusto in Some Songs by Brahms	0
Graphing Deep Hypermeter in the Scherzo Movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony	0
Erratum	0
Contributors	0
Narrative and Tonal Structure in Herrmann’s Score for Vertigo	0
Antifocal Anaphoras in Hip-Hop Vocals	0
Second-Reprise Opening Schemas in Bach’s Binary Movements	0