OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Music Theory Online is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Music Theory and the White Racial Frame	102
The Cultural Significance of Timbre Analysis	10
Portmantonality and Babbitt’s Poetics ofDouble Entendre	10
Transcending Time (Feels)	6
Harmonic, Syntactic, and Motivic Parameters of Phrase in Hip-Hop	5
Dynamic Range Processing and Its Influence on Perceived Timing in Electronic Dance Music	5
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 Metal	3
“All of the Rules of Jazz”	3
Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop	3
Developing Musical Imagery	3
Analyzing Vocables in Rap	3
What Are the Truly Aural Skills?	3
The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music	3
A Bevy of Biases	3
Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts	2
Mixture Strategies	2
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 Gubaidulina	2
Encoding Post-Spectral Sound	2
Brahmsian Articulation	2
Orchestral Tissue, Subordinate Arabesques, and Turning Inward in Maurice Ravel’sBoléro	2
A Transformational Approach to Gesture in Shō Performance	2
Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation	2
Music Theory for the “Weaker Sex”: Oliveria Prescott’s Columns forThe Girl’s Own Paper	2

Review-Essay on Fred Lerdahl’sComposition and Cognition(University of California Press, 2019)	2
Cantopop and Speech-Melody Complex	1
Macroharmonic Progressions through the Discrete Fourier Transform	1
Sometimes the Music Wins	1
Multi-Strand Musical Narratives	1
Analyzing Schoenberg’s War Compositions as Satire and Sincerity: A Comparative Analysis of Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte and A Survivor from Warsaw	1
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Instrumental Transformations in Heinrich Biber’s Mystery Sonatas	1
Continuous Question-Answer Pairs	1
The Functions of Continuous Processes in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music	1
Prolongational Closure in the Lieder of Fanny Hensel	1
Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 2	1
Ravel’s Sound	1
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 1980s	1
Romantic Periods	1
Archival Research in Music	1
LGBTQ+ Lives in Professional Music Theory	1
A Cognitive Basis for Choosing a Solmization System	1
(Per)forming Open Form: A Case Study with Earle Brown’s Novara	1
Climax Building in Verismo Opera	1
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 tāl	1
Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences	1
The Many Paths of Decolonization	1
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 2015	1
Introduction	1
Mapping Ravel’s “La vallée des cloches”	1
Gould’s Creaking Chair, Schoenberg’s Metric Clarity	1
Interactions of Folk Melody and Transformational (Dis)continuities in Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999)	1
Onset and Contiguity	1
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer	1
Schoenberg’s Cinematographic Blueprint: A Programmatic Analysis ofBegleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene(1929–1930)	1