Music Theory Online

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal14
“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail11
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music8
Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs5
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Onset and Contiguity4
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought4
Texture, Rhythmic Synchrony, and Tonal Fusion in Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, In for a Pound3
Music from Plant Biosignals3
Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)3
Review of Megan Kaes Long,Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century(Oxford University Press, 2020)3
Cadential Melodies3
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained3
Alanis Morissette’s Voices3
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity2
Global Philosophy of Music2
Three Audiovisual Correspondences in the Main Title forVertigo2
Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs2
Commentary2
Material Connections2
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies2
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice2
Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada2
Commentary2
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists2
Prosodic Dissonance1
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Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata1
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales1
Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Toru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II1
The Pen as Camera1
Analyzing Vocables in Rap1
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music1
Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence1
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce1
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Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–20211
A Bevy of Biases1
The Common Cold1
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Cage’s Imitation Game: Cheap Imitation and Song Books through the sketches1
Archival Research in Music1
Switching the Backbeat1
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor0
The Semantic Evolution of Chromatic Mediants0
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Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance0
Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy0
Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre0
“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha0
Commentary0
Encoding Post-Spectral Sound0
Commentary0
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music0
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method0
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Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)0
On the Ubọ-Aka of the Igbo0
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers0
Rethinking Topic Theory0
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s an0
Review of John Paul Ito, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2020)0
Generic Norms, Irony, and Authenticity in the AABA Songs of the Rolling Stones, 1963–19710
Macroharmonic Progressions through the Discrete Fourier Transform0
Embedded Music Theory0
“At One End of the Endless Universe”0
Review of Violetta Kostka, Paulo F. de Castro, and William A. Everett, eds., Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (Routledge, 2021)0
The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music0
Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music0
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
Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music0
A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint0
Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 20150
Integration, Urbanity, and Multi-Dimensionality in Schoenberg’s First Quartet0
Returning to the Continuum0
The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring0
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free0
Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
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Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker0
Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau0
Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)0
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
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity0
Tonal Ebb, Sunken II Chords, and Text-Music Correspondences in Robert Schumann’s Lieder0
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows0
Commentary0
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
Romantic Periods0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)0
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Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music (Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Between Half and Perfect Cadences0
Commentary0
Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space0
Commentary0
Conference report0
Translation of Dobri Hristov’s “Metric and Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music”0
Introduction0
Commentary0
Out of the Blue0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
Imaginary Folk Music: Investigating Unsuk Chin’s Gougalōn (2009/2012) through Cumulative Intercultural Analysis0
Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s0
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”0
Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Iṣfahān in Persian Art Music0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–20200
Commentary0
Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
Performing Meter0
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
Structural Density and Clarity, Technical Death Metal, and Anomalous’s “Ohmnivalent”0
Commentary0
Review of Laura Emmery, Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets: A Study in Sketches (Routledge, 2020)0
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Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni0
On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
Mixture Strategies0
Emergent Modality0
Brahmsian Articulation0
Reimagining Organicism0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu0
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal0
Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”0
Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop0
Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley0
Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts0
Harmonic “Quality” and Set-Class Structure0
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan0
“Feel the Emptiness”0
Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès0
Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
Sociable Musicopoetics in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s In What Language0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel0
Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho0
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Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation0
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Koizumi Fumio on Nuclear Tones0
Switch Up the Groove0
Conference Report0
Sometimes the Music Wins0
Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences0
Commentary0
George Walker’s Piano Music0
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Review of Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
Music Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism0
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Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
The Many Paths of Decolonization0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs0
Performing Analysis, Performing Metal0
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception0
Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 20
Commentary0
Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory0
Klangfarbenmelodie in 1911: Timbre’s Functional Roles in Webern’s Opp. 9 and 100
Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
Introduction0
Eric Dolphy’s and Yusef Lateef’s Synthetic Formations0
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