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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal13
“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail9
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music8
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Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs4
Alanis Morissette’s Voices3
Music from Plant Biosignals3
Review of Malawey, Victoria,A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice(Oxford University Press, 2020)3
Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)3
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought3
Onset and Contiguity3
Cadential Melodies3
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained2
Commentary2
Global Philosophy of Music2
A Cognitive Basis for Choosing a Solmization System2
Developing Musical Imagery2
Reframing Generated Rhythms and the Metric Matrix as Projections of Higher-Dimensional Lattices in Scott Joplin’s Music2
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity2
Material Connections2
Review of Megan Kaes Long,Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century(Oxford University Press, 2020)2
Commentary2
Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada2
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies2
Three Audiovisual Correspondences in the Main Title forVertigo1
Prosodic Dissonance1
Switching the Backbeat1
Analyzing Vocables in Rap1
The Common Cold1
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice1
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists1
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music1
Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata1
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce1
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Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs1
A Bevy of Biases1
Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence1
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales1
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences0
Rethinking Topic Theory0
Structural Density and Clarity, Technical Death Metal, and Anomalous’s “Ohmnivalent”0
Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho0
Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music (Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)0
Injury, Affirmation, and the Disability Masquerade in Ye’s “Through the Wire”0
Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès0
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Archival Research in Music0
Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 20
Harmonic “Quality” and Set-Class Structure0
Cage’s Imitation Game: Cheap Imitation and Song Books through the sketches0
Review of John Paul Ito, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2020)0
Commentary0
Commentary0
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Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha0
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows0
Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy0
Mixture Strategies0
Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop0
Commentary0
Asymmetrical Meter, Ostinati, and Cycles in the Music of Tigran Hamasyan0
Rethinking Aural Skills Instruction through Cognitive Research0
Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre0
What Are the Truly Aural Skills?0
Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 20150
Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal0
Performing Meter0
Brahmsian Articulation0
War and the Musical Grotesque in Crumb’s “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”0
The Functions of Continuous Processes in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music0
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory0
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
Emergent Modality0
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Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan0
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer0
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On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”0
Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music0
Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music0
Embedded Music Theory0
Sociable Musicopoetics in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s In What Language0
Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation0
Integration, Urbanity, and Multi-Dimensionality in Schoenberg’s First Quartet0
Between Half and Perfect Cadences0
Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–20210
The Many Paths of Decolonization0
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Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
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“At One End of the Endless Universe”0
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers0
Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space0
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Commentary0
Romantic Periods0
A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint0
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity0
Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s an0
Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance0
Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley0
Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker0
Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni0
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs0
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Review of Laura Emmery, Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets: A Study in Sketches (Routledge, 2020)0
Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
Commentary0
Music Theory’s Visceral Turn: A Review of Roger Matthew Grant,Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical(New York: Fordham University Press, 2020)0
Commentary0
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’sViolin Phaseand the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)0
Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe0
Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts0
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method0
Generic Norms, Irony, and Authenticity in the AABA Songs of the Rolling Stones, 1963–19710
Conference Report0
Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s0
Tonal Ebb, Sunken II Chords, and Text-Music Correspondences in Robert Schumann’s Lieder0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu0
Translation of Dobri Hristov’s “Metric and Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music”0
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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On the Ubọ-Aka of the Igbo0
Returning to the Continuum0
George Walker’s Piano Music0
Commentary0
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel0
The Pen as Camera0
Review of Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
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Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Toru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II0
Out of the Blue0
Commentary0
Commentary0
Conference report0
Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony inBarton Fink0
Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”0
Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)0
Introduction0
Sometimes the Music Wins0
Commentary0
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor0
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
Klangfarbenmelodie in 1911: Timbre’s Functional Roles in Webern’s Opp. 9 and 100
Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music0
Reimagining Organicism0
Flexible Ostinati, Groove, and Formal Process in Craig Taborn’sAvenging Angel0
Performing Analysis, Performing Metal0
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception0
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The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
“Feel the Emptiness”0
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The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring0
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz0
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Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau0
Koizumi Fumio on Nuclear Tones0
Report0
Encoding Post-Spectral Sound0
Macroharmonic Progressions through the Discrete Fourier Transform0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–20200
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