Music Theory Spectrum

Papers
(The TQCC of Music Theory Spectrum 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Meter as RhythmMusic in Time: Phenomenology, Perception, Performance14
Contrapuntal Parody and Transsymphonic Narrative in Mahler’s Rondo-Burleske13
Rethinking Sonata Failure: Mendelssohn’s OvertureZum Märchen von der schönen Melusine6
Barbershop’s Cautionary Tale for Academic Music Theory: A Response to Stephen Lett5
Materiality of Sonic Imagery: On Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Compositions5
Extreme Meter Changes and Tempo Giusto in Some Songs by Brahms4
Spreading the Word4
Hermeneutic Limits; or, When Not to Theorize: Notes for Interpreting Our Phoenix by Trans Indigenous Mexican-American Composer Mari Esabel Valverde3
Bang your Head: Construing Beat through Familiar Drum Patterns in Metal Music3
Apparently Imperfect: On the Analytical Issues of the IAC3
From Exoticism to Interculturalism: Counterframing the East–West Binary3
An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought. By Benjamin Steege3
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft2
Public Music Theory: A Way of Understanding2
Segmentation, Phrasing, and Meter in Hip-Hop Music2
How SMT Could Become More Welcoming2
Abolitionist Music Theory and Marxism: Notes Toward a Reconciliation2
The Audience Chimera: On Platforms, Publics, and Power2
Orienting to Pedagogical Service2
Contributors2
Focal Impulse Theory. By John Paul Ito2
Merging the Sonata and the Concerto: The Role of Virtuosic Passages in Determining Formal Closure in High-Classical Sonata Expositions2
Living Toys in Thomas Adès’s Living Toys: Transforming the Post-Tonal Topic2
Attachments on Display: Music Analysis in the Public Sphere2
Music Theory and the SMT at 45: Perspectives on Inclusion2
Leitmotivic Strategies in Nobuo Uematsu’sFinal FantasySoundtracks1
Contributors1
Varied Ostinato and the Functions of Repetition in Harrison Birtwistle’s “Frieze 2” and “Frieze 3”1
Corpus Studies, Sonata Typology, and the Nineteenth-Century Violin Concerto: Viotti, Saint-Saëns, and the Challenge of Recapitulatory Compression1
Becoming and Beyond: Applying Goethe’s Progressive and Retrogressive Metamorphosis to Fanny Hensel’s Piano Sonatas1
Contributors1
The Royal Road Progression in Japanese Popular Music1
Rossinian Reiz: Strategic Musical Irritation and the Capturing of Attention1
Correction1
Erratum1
Motivic Trees, Network Analysis, and Bartók’sEight Improvisations on Hungarian Folk Songs, No. 51
Zarlino’sComporre di fantasiaand Canon1
Contributors1
Correction to: review of Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900–1960. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft1
Correction1
Narrative and Tonal Structure in Herrmann’s Score for Vertigo1
Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music. By Mariusz Kozak1
Bins, Spans, and Tolerance: Three Theories of Microtiming Behavior1
Music Theory Splintered Up, Not Broken Down: The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory. Edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings1
A Grid in Flux: Sound and Timing in Electronic Dance Music1
Hidden Public Music Theory1
Undisciplined1
Writing (Re)Considered1
Naamyam, Creative Music, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s “Burial Mound”1
Combinatorics, Composition, Copia: Mersenne’s Permutations as Rhetoric of Abundance1
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