Music Theory Online

Papers
(The median citation count of Music Theory Online 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail29
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music15
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought7
Analyzing Unruly Themes7
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal7
Texture, Rhythmic Synchrony, and Tonal Fusion in Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, In for a Pound6
Dreams Realized5
Alanis Morissette’s Voices4
Cadential Melodies4
Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs4
Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)4
Commentary3
Lines and Points: Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings3
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity3
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained3
Symmetrical Structures in Xenakis’s Okho : At the Intersection of Mathematics and Literature3
Commentary2
Music from Plant Biosignals2
Global Philosophy of Music2
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies2
Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada2
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice2
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Prosodic Dissonance1
Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata1
Analyzing Vocables in Rap1
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce1
Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)1
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Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs1
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Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence1
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales1
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Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space1
Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–20211
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists1
Weird, Menacing, and Colorful1
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music1
The Common Cold1
What Does a Corpus of Music Represent? Commentary on “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies”1
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Dispersed Meter in Elizabethan Polyphony1
The Evolution of Improvisation in Early Jazz Piano Pedagogy1
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method0
The Many Paths of Decolonization0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)0
Commentary0
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free0
Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy0
Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès0
Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
Commentary0
Harmonic “Quality” and Set-Class Structure0
Reimagining Organicism0
Commentary0
Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”0
Review of Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing , by Fernando Benadon (Oxford University Press, 2024)0
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Embedded Music Theory0
Commentary0
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers0
Gestural Forces in Steve Reich’s Augmentation-as-Process Works0
Mixed Rhythms in Chopin’s Ballades and Scherzos0
Theoretical/Theological Revelations: Reflections on Three Songs from G.E.M.’s Revelation0
Commentary0
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Report0
Rethinking Topic Theory0
Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony inBarton Fink0
Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts0
The Expositional Rondo0
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
Redrawing Analytical Lines0
“Cueing” Your Playlist0
A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint0
Injury, Affirmation, and the Disability Masquerade in Ye’s “Through the Wire”0
Introduction0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
Sonata Form in Spain: Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s Seis sonatas (1780)0
Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni0
Modes in Klezmer Music0
“Feel the Emptiness”0
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal0
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Sociable Musicopoetics in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s In What Language0
Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley0
Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho0
On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)0
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Windows into Beethoven’s Lessons in Bonn: Kirnberger’sDie wahren Grundsätze zum Gebrauch der Harmonie(1773) and Vogler’sGründe der Kuhrpfälzischen Tonschule in Beyspielen(1776/1778)0
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music0
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor0
György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto in the Light of the Article “. . . how time passes . . .” by Karlheinz Stockhausen0
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s an0
Commentary0
Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu0
Conference Report0
Commentary0
Music Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism0
The Classical Concerto First-Movement Cadenza0
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception0
Switch Up the Groove0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–20200
Performing Meter0
Translation of Dobri Hristov’s “Metric and Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music”0
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz0
Chord Tone or Harmonic-Bass Divorce? An Enactive Approach to Hearing Pedals in Popular Music0
Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker0
On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”0
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory0
Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Iṣfahān in Persian Art Music0
“At One End of the Endless Universe”0
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Eric Dolphy’s and Yusef Lateef’s Synthetic Formations0
Commentary0
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity0
Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music0
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The Semantic Evolution of Chromatic Mediants0
Beyond Strophic0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs0
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
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Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan0
“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha0
Review of The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting by Trevor de Clercq (Routledge, 2025)0
On the Ubọ-Aka of the Igbo0
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows0
Response to Trevor de Clercq (2025)0
Between Half and Perfect Cadences0
Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel0
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The Embodied Folk Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten0
Imaginary Folk Music: Investigating Unsuk Chin’s Gougalōn (2009/2012) through Cumulative Intercultural Analysis0
Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
Returning to the Continuum0
Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre0
Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
Introduction0
Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop0
The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring0
Koizumi Fumio on Nuclear Tones0
Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 20150
George Walker’s Piano Music0
Out of the Blue0
Against the Monochord0
Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe0
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Review of Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
Review of Violetta Kostka, Paulo F. de Castro, and William A. Everett, eds., Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (Routledge, 2021)0
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