Music Theory Spectrum

Papers
(The TQCC of Music Theory Spectrum is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Meter as RhythmMusic in Time: Phenomenology, Perception, Performance18
Contrapuntal Parody and Transsymphonic Narrative in Mahler’s Rondo-Burleske13
Rethinking Sonata Failure: Mendelssohn’s OvertureZum Märchen von der schönen Melusine9
Barbershop’s Cautionary Tale for Academic Music Theory: A Response to Stephen Lett6
Spreading the Word5
Materiality of Sonic Imagery: On Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Compositions5
Apparently Imperfect: On the Analytical Issues of the IAC3
Erratum3
Hermeneutic Limits; or, When Not to Theorize: Notes for Interpreting Our Phoenix by Trans Indigenous Mexican-American Composer Mari Esabel Valverde3
An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege3
Extreme Meter Changes and Tempo Giusto in Some Songs by Brahms3
Merging the Sonata and the Concerto: The Role of Virtuosic Passages in Determining Formal Closure in High-Classical Sonata Expositions2
Focal Impulse Theory. By John Paul Ito2
Segmentation, Phrasing, and Meter in Hip-Hop Music2
Bang your Head: Construing Beat through Familiar Drum Patterns in Metal Music2
The Audience Chimera: On Platforms, Publics, and Power2
Living Toys in Thomas Adès’s Living Toys: Transforming the Post-Tonal Topic2
Public Music Theory: A Way of Understanding2
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft2
Abolitionist Music Theory and Marxism: Notes Toward a Reconciliation2
Music Theory and the SMT at 45: Perspectives on Inclusion2
From Exoticism to Interculturalism: Counterframing the East–West Binary2
Correction1
How SMT Could Become More Welcoming1
Combinatorics, Composition, Copia: Mersenne’s Permutations as Rhetoric of Abundance1
Leitmotivic Strategies in Nobuo Uematsu’sFinal FantasySoundtracks1
The Royal Road Progression in Japanese Popular Music1
Getting to Count1
Orienting to Pedagogical Service1
Contributors1
Narrative and Tonal Structure in Herrmann’s Score for Vertigo1
Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music. By Mariusz Kozak1
Attachments on Display: Music Analysis in the Public Sphere1
Rossinian Reiz: Strategic Musical Irritation and the Capturing of Attention1
Naamyam, Creative Music, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s “Burial Mound”1
Writing (Re)Considered1
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