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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Transcending Time (Feels)6
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception6
A Bevy of Biases6
Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop4
Brahmsian Articulation3
Compound AABA Form and Style Distinction in Heavy Metal3
Analyzing Vocables in Rap3
What Are the Truly Aural Skills?3
Gould’s Creaking Chair, Schoenberg’s Metric Clarity3
The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music3
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music3
A Transformational Approach to Gesture in Shō Performance3
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’sViolin Phaseand the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?3
Developing Musical Imagery3
Klangfarbenmelodie in 1911: Timbre’s Functional Roles in Webern’s Opp. 9 and 102
Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences2
Macroharmonic Progressions through the Discrete Fourier Transform2
Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts2
Mixture Strategies2
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory2
The Many Paths of Decolonization2
Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation2
Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Toru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II2
Onset and Contiguity2
Cantopop and Speech-Melody Complex2
Encoding Post-Spectral Sound2
Sometimes the Music Wins2
Review of John Paul Ito, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2020)1
Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space1
Archival Research in Music1
Performing Analysis, Performing Metal1
Instrumental Transformations in Heinrich Biber’s Mystery Sonatas1
Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 21
Schoenberg’s Cinematographic Blueprint: A Programmatic Analysis ofBegleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene(1929–1930)1
Ravel’s Sound1
Three Audiovisual Correspondences in the Main Title forVertigo1
Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music1
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies1
A Cognitive Basis for Choosing a Solmization System1
The Functions of Continuous Processes in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music1
Review of Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)1
Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s1
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal1
Romantic Periods1
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor1
Analyzing Schoenberg’s War Compositions as Satire and Sincerity: A Comparative Analysis of Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and A Survivor from Warsaw1
Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 20151
Mapping Ravel’s “La vallée des cloches”1
A “Proto-Theme” in Some of J. S. Bach’s Fugal Works1
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer1
Injury, Affirmation, and the Disability Masquerade in Ye’s “Through the Wire”1
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Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal0
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”0
Conference report0
Global Philosophy of Music0
Cadential Melodies0
Flexible Ostinati, Groove, and Formal Process in Craig Taborn’sAvenging Angel0
Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)0
On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Schoenberg’s Klavierstück, op. 33a0
Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
War and the Musical Grotesque in Crumb’s “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”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
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Generic Norms, Irony, and Authenticity in the AABA Songs of the Rolling Stones, 1963–19710
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows0
Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music0
Review of Malawey, Victoria,A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice(Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free0
Reframing Generated Rhythms and the Metric Matrix as Projections of Higher-Dimensional Lattices in Scott Joplin’s Music0
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Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music0
Review ofRethinking Reich, Edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Siôn (Oxford University Press, 2019)0
Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales0
Pen, Paper, Steel0
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Asymmetrical Meter, Ostinati, and Cycles in the Music of Tigran Hamasyan0
Blues Lyric Formulas in Early Country Music, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll0
Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho0
Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
Emergent Modality0
“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail0
Out of the Blue0
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
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
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Prosodic Dissonance0
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
Review of Megan Kaes Long,Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century(Oxford University Press, 2020)0
A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint0
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Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
Music from Plant Biosignals0
Review of Violetta Kostka, Paulo F. de Castro, and William A. Everett, eds., Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (Routledge, 2021)0
Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music (Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
The Common Cold0
Review ofThe Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings (Oxford University Press, 2019)0
Computer-aided Analysis of Sonority in the French Motet Repertory, ca. 1300–13500
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
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Integration, Urbanity, and Multi-Dimensionality in Schoenberg’s First Quartet0
Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy0
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method0
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Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony inBarton Fink0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs0
Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès0
Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs0
Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)0
Harmonic “Quality” and Set-Class Structure0
Returning to the Continuum0
Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance0
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz0
Review of Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
Rethinking Topic Theory0
The Pen as Camera0
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained0
Between Half and Perfect Cadences0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
Reimagining Organicism0
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce0
“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
Material Connections0
Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
Alanis Morissette’s Voices0
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity0
Rethinking Aural Skills Instruction through Cognitive Research0
Cage’s Imitation Game: Cheap Imitation and Song Books through the sketches0
Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel0
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Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau0
Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata0
Tonal Ebb, Sunken II Chords, and Text-Music Correspondences in Robert Schumann’s Lieder0
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Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre0
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Structural Density and Clarity, Technical Death Metal, and Anomalous’s “Ohmnivalent”0
Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–20210
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu0
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Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”0
Conference Report0
Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs0
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice0
Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe0
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
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–20200
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Sociable Musicopoetics in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s In What Language0
Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley0
Review of Jason Yust,Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form(Oxford University Press, 2018)0
George Walker’s Piano Music0
Introduction0
Review of Laura Emmery, Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets: A Study in Sketches (Routledge, 2020)0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)0
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music0
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The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring0
Switching the Backbeat0
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