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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail30
Analyzing Unruly Themes15
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal7
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music7
Texture, Rhythmic Synchrony, and Tonal Fusion in Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, In for a Pound6
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought5
Dreams Realized5
Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs5
Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)5
Rore’s Arcane Counterpoint5
Alanis Morissette’s Voices4
Music from Plant Biosignals3
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained3
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Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada2
Examining Minor-Mode Scale Practice2
Lines and Points: Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings2
Symmetrical Structures in Xenakis’s Okho : At the Intersection of Mathematics and Literature2
Memory and Oblivion in the Andante of Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto2
Commentary2
Global Philosophy of Music2
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice2
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies2
The Common Cold1
Prosodic Dissonance1
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music1
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Dispersed Meter in Elizabethan Polyphony1
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
Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata1
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales1
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What Does a Corpus of Music Represent? Commentary on “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies”1
Compositional Pluralism in Roger Sessions’s Second Symphony1
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
The Evolution of Improvisation in Early Jazz Piano Pedagogy1
Choreomusical Analogies in the Symphonic Minuet1
Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)1
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Review of Violetta Kostka, Paulo F. de Castro, and William A. Everett, eds., Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (Routledge, 2021)0
Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Iṣfahān in Persian Art Music0
Theoretical/Theological Revelations: Reflections on Three Songs from G.E.M.’s Revelation0
“Feel the Emptiness”0
Changed for Good: Pathways of Motivic and Tonal Development in Wicked0
The Semantic Evolution of Chromatic Mediants0
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Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method0
Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès0
Modes in Klezmer Music0
Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal0
Harmonic “Quality” and Set-Class Structure0
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
Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy0
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Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor0
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Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance0
György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto in the Light of the Article “. . . how time passes . . .” by Karlheinz Stockhausen0
Gestural Forces in Steve Reich’s Augmentation-as-Process Works0
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Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop0
Conference Report0
Sociable Musicopoetics in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s In What Language0
Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space0
Redrawing Analytical Lines0
Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
“Cueing” Your Playlist0
Translation of Dobri Hristov’s “Metric and Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music”0
Rethinking Topic Theory0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
Music Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism0
George Walker’s Piano Music0
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Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music0
A Comparison of the Accuracy of Two Models for Predicting the Behavior of “Soul Dominants” in the McGill Billboard Corpus0
The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring0
Review of Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs0
Eric Dolphy’s and Yusef Lateef’s Synthetic Formations0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni0
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The Semiotics of Glissandi in Video Games0
Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)0
On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
The Embodied Folk Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten0
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Reimagining Organicism0
Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley0
Embedded Music Theory0
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows0
Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)0
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s an0
Reading Singing in Gerbert de Montreuil’s Roman de la Violette0
Response to Trevor de Clercq (2025)0
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Beyond Strophic0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–20200
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz0
Mixed Rhythms in Chopin’s Ballades and Scherzos0
Switch Up the Groove0
Against the Monochord0
Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe0
Koizumi Fumio on Nuclear Tones0
Chord Tone or Harmonic-Bass Divorce? An Enactive Approach to Hearing Pedals in Popular Music0
“At One End of the Endless Universe”0
On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”0
Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music0
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A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint0
Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony inBarton Fink0
Injury, Affirmation, and the Disability Masquerade in Ye’s “Through the Wire”0
Returning to the Continuum0
Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
“I Raq and Roll”0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu0
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“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha0
Imaginary Folk Music: Investigating Unsuk Chin’s Gougalōn (2009/2012) through Cumulative Intercultural Analysis0
Review of The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting by Trevor de Clercq (Routledge, 2025)0
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
On the Ubọ-Aka of the Igbo0
Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”0
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan0
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music0
A Context-Sensitive Analysis of the Pre-Dominant Function0
Review of Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing , by Fernando Benadon (Oxford University Press, 2024)0
Between Half and Perfect Cadences0
Performing Meter0
Sonata Form in Spain: Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s Seis sonatas (1780)0
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free0
Structural and Rhetorical Closure in 1970s Rock Songs0
Musical Distance, Anticipation, and Character Development in Kaija Saariaho’s Opera L’Amour de loin0
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers0
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The Classical Concerto First-Movement Cadenza0
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Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
Modulation and Chromatic Mediants in Japanese Anime Songs0
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception0
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Introduction0
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Out of the Blue0
When Music Theory Forgets Its History0
The Expositional Rondo0
Revisiting Polymeter: “Veneno Rítmico” and Colombian Currulao0
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