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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Music Theory and the White Racial Frame102
The Cultural Significance of Timbre Analysis10
Portmantonality and Babbitt’s Poetics ofDouble Entendre10
Transcending Time (Feels)6
Dynamic Range Processing and Its Influence on Perceived Timing in Electronic Dance Music5
Harmonic, Syntactic, and Motivic Parameters of Phrase in Hip-Hop5
What Are the Truly Aural Skills?3
The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music3
A Bevy of Biases3
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’sViolin Phaseand the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?3
Compound AABA Form and Style Distinction in Heavy Metal3
“All of the Rules of Jazz”3
Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop3
Developing Musical Imagery3
Analyzing Vocables in Rap3
A Transformational Approach to Gesture in Shō Performance2
Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation2
Music Theory for the “Weaker Sex”: Oliveria Prescott’s Columns forThe Girl’s Own Paper2
Review-Essay on Fred Lerdahl’sComposition and Cognition(University of California Press, 2019)2
Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts2
Mixture Strategies2
Experiencing Chen Yi’s Music: Local and Cosmopolitan Reciprocities in Ning for Pipa, Violin and Cello (2002)2
Consonance, Dissonance, and Formal Proportions in Two Works by Sofia Gubaidulina2
Encoding Post-Spectral Sound2
Brahmsian Articulation2
Orchestral Tissue, Subordinate Arabesques, and Turning Inward in Maurice Ravel’sBoléro2
Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences1
The Many Paths of Decolonization1
The Concept ofShi: Chinese Aesthetics andHappy Rain on a Spring Night(2004)1
Review of John Paul Ito, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2020)1
Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 20151
Introduction1
Mapping Ravel’s “La vallée des cloches”1
Gould’s Creaking Chair, Schoenberg’s Metric Clarity1
Interactions of Folk Melody and Transformational (Dis)continuities in Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999)1
Onset and Contiguity1
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer1
Schoenberg’s Cinematographic Blueprint: A Programmatic Analysis ofBegleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene(1929–1930)1
Cantopop and Speech-Melody Complex1
Macroharmonic Progressions through the Discrete Fourier Transform1
Sometimes the Music Wins1
Multi-Strand Musical Narratives1
Analyzing Schoenberg’s War Compositions as Satire and Sincerity: A Comparative Analysis of Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and A Survivor from Warsaw1
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Instrumental Transformations in Heinrich Biber’s Mystery Sonatas1
Continuous Question-Answer Pairs1
The Functions of Continuous Processes in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music1
Prolongational Closure in the Lieder of Fanny Hensel1
Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 21
Ravel’s Sound1
Review of Jennifer Iverson, Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde (Oxford University Press, 2019)1
Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s1
Romantic Periods1
Archival Research in Music1
LGBTQ+ Lives in Professional Music Theory1
A Cognitive Basis for Choosing a Solmization System1
(Per)forming Open Form: A Case Study with Earle Brown’s Novara1
Climax Building in Verismo Opera1
Review of Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)1
Theory and Practice of Long-form Non-isochronous Meters: The Case of the North Indianrūpak tāl1
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music0
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Schoenberg’s Klavierstück, op. 33a0
Out of the Blue0
Some (Dis)Assembly Required0
Review of Jason Yust, Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form (Oxford University Press, 2018)0
Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
Rethinking Aural Skills Instruction through Cognitive Research0
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Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
Reimagining Historical Improvisation0
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory0
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On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music (Oxford University Press, 2020)0
The Common Cold0
Performing Analysis, Performing Metal0
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Review ofThe Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings (Oxford University Press, 2019)0
Review of Rethinking Reich, Edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Siôn (Oxford University Press, 2019)0
Review of Leslie A. Tilley, Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond (The University of Chicago Press, 2019)0
Fanfare as Fulcrum0
Asymmetrical Meter, Ostinati, and Cycles in the Music of Tigran Hamasyan0
Recapitulatory Compressions in Some Texted and Instrumental Works by Schubert0
A “Proto-Theme” in Some of J. S. Bach’s Fugal Works0
Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho0
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
Injury, Affirmation, and the Disability Masquerade in Ye’s “Through the Wire”0
Cage’s Imitation Game: Cheap Imitation and Song Books through the sketches0
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice0
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Cadential Melodies0
Formal Reminiscence Space and Memory in Sufjan Stevens’s Storytelling0
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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
Shaping Form: Performances as Analyses of Cyclic Macroform in Arnold Schoenberg’sSechs kleine Klavierstücke, op. 19 (1911), in the Recordings of Eduard Steuermann and Other Pianists0
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
Global Philosophy of Music0
Compositional Process and Technique in Happy Rain on a Spring Night (2004)0
Klangfarbenmelodie in 1911: Timbre’s Functional Roles in Webern’s Opp. 9 and 100
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
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Switching the Backbeat0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre0
Structural Density and Clarity, Technical Death Metal, and Anomalous’s “Ohmnivalent”0
War and the Musical Grotesque in Crumb’s “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”0
Harmonizing Chorales Systematically: A Translation of G. H. Stölzel’s Kurzer und gründlicher Unterricht (Brief and Thorough Instruction), ms. c.1719–17490
Integration, Urbanity, and Multi-Dimensionality in Schoenberg’s First Quartet0
Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Toru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II0
Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony in Barton Fink0
Computer-aided Analysis of Sonority in the French Motet Repertory, ca. 1300–13500
Emergent Modality0
Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music0
Review of Malawey, Victoria,A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice(Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack to Faxanadu0
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor0
“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail0
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce0
The Pen as Camera0
Between Half and Perfect Cadences0
Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau0
Retrospective Time and the Subdominant Past0
Reframing Generated Rhythms and the Metric Matrix as Projections of Higher-Dimensional Lattices in Scott Joplin’s Music0
Introduction0
Material Connections0
Pen, Paper, Steel0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
Reimagining Organicism0
What Happens after the Primal Burn? Dissonance in Sonic Youth’s Middle Period0
Blues Lyric Formulas in Early Country Music, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll0
Conference report0
Windows into Beethoven’s Lessons in Bonn: Kirnberger’s Die wahren Grundsätze zum Gebrauch der Harmonie (1773) and Vogler’s Gründe der Kuhrpfälzischen Tonschule in Beyspielen (1776/1778)0
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Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
“Octatonic” Voice Leading and Diatonic Function in theAllegro moltofrom Elgar’s String Quartet in E minor, op. 830
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity0
Flexible Ostinati, Groove, and Formal Process in Craig Taborn’sAvenging Angel0
Tonal Ebb, Sunken II Chords, and Text-Music Correspondences in Robert Schumann’s Lieder0
Review of Keith Waters, Postbop Jazz in the 1960s: The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea (Oxford University Press, 2019)0
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Three Audiovisual Correspondences in the Main Title forVertigo0
Generic Norms, Irony, and Authenticity in the AABA Songs of the Rolling Stones, 1963–19710
Resolving Tensions between Outer Form and Inner Form in Fugue: A Comparative Analysis of J. S. Bach’s Fugue in D minor (WTCI)0
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Conference Report0
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
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Review of Megan Kaes Long,Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century(Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Review of David Temperley, The Musical Language of Rock (Oxford University Press: 2018)0
“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha0
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity0
Review of Laura Emmery, Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets: A Study in Sketches (Routledge, 2020)0
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