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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
George Walker’s Piano Music9
Review of Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press, 2022)8
Between Half and Perfect Cadences4
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music4
Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s3
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Harmonic “Quality” and Set-Class Structure3
“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail3
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal3
“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha3
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Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho2
Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès2
Injury, Affirmation, and the Disability Masquerade in Ye’s “Through the Wire”2
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Macroharmonic Progressions through the Discrete Fourier Transform2
Commentary2
Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music2
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music2
The Many Paths of Decolonization2
Koizumi Fumio on Nuclear Tones2
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer1
Generic Norms, Irony, and Authenticity in the AABA Songs of the Rolling Stones, 1963–19711
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Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs1
On the Ubọ-Aka of the Igbo1
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Flexible Ostinati, Groove, and Formal Process in Craig Taborn’sAvenging Angel1
Review of Malawey, Victoria,A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice(Oxford University Press, 2020)1
Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 21
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music1
Embedded Music Theory1
Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences1
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Structural Density and Clarity, Technical Death Metal, and Anomalous’s “Ohmnivalent”1
Translation of Dobri Hristov’s “Metric and Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music”1
Commentary1
A Bevy of Biases1
A Cognitive Basis for Choosing a Solmization System0
Music from Plant Biosignals0
Three Audiovisual Correspondences in the Main Title forVertigo0
Commentary0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)0
Developing Musical Imagery0
Report0
Alanis Morissette’s Voices0
Introduction0
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Review of Laura Emmery, Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets: A Study in Sketches (Routledge, 2020)0
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On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”0
Commentary0
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Commentary0
Conference Report0
Onset and Contiguity0
Prosodic Dissonance0
Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music (Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop0
Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe0
Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity0
Review of John Paul Ito, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2020)0
Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley0
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz0
Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni0
Returning to the Continuum0
Sometimes the Music Wins0
Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 20150
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
Rethinking Topic Theory0
Commentary0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies0
Brahmsian Articulation0
The Functions of Continuous Processes in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music0
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free0
Commentary0
Romantic Periods0
War and the Musical Grotesque in Crumb’s “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”0
Switching the Backbeat0
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice0
Global Philosophy of Music0
Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
Cage’s Imitation Game: Cheap Imitation and Song Books through the sketches0
Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)0
The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring0
Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau0
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception0
“Feel the Emptiness”0
Commentary0
Review of Megan Kaes Long,Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century(Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
“At One End of the Endless Universe”0
Commentary0
Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu0
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s an0
Encoding Post-Spectral Sound0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel0
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The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music0
Review of Violetta Kostka, Paulo F. de Castro, and William A. Everett, eds., Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (Routledge, 2021)0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre0
Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music0
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales0
The Common Cold0
What Are the Truly Aural Skills?0
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy0
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Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts0
Introduction0
Asymmetrical Meter, Ostinati, and Cycles in the Music of Tigran Hamasyan0
Material Connections0
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained0
Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)0
Rethinking Aural Skills Instruction through Cognitive Research0
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Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal0
Emergent Modality0
Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space0
Performing Meter0
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
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity0
Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
Reframing Generated Rhythms and the Metric Matrix as Projections of Higher-Dimensional Lattices in Scott Joplin’s Music0
Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
Cadential Melodies0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–20200
Klangfarbenmelodie in 1911: Timbre’s Functional Roles in Webern’s Opp. 9 and 100
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Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada0
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Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)0
Commentary0
Reimagining Organicism0
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor0
Analyzing Vocables in Rap0
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists0
Conference report0
The Pen as Camera0
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method0
A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint0
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Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs0
Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata0
Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation0
Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance0
Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music0
Integration, Urbanity, and Multi-Dimensionality in Schoenberg’s First Quartet0
Out of the Blue0
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers0
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
Tonal Ebb, Sunken II Chords, and Text-Music Correspondences in Robert Schumann’s Lieder0
Mixture Strategies0
Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
Archival Research in Music0
Performing Analysis, Performing Metal0
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought0
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows0
Commentary0
Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs0
Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Toru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II0
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce0
Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony inBarton Fink0
Sociable Musicopoetics in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s In What Language0
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’sViolin Phaseand the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?0
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory0
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Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–20210
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