Music Theory Online

Article	Citations
“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail	29
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music	15
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal	7
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought	7
Analyzing Unruly Themes	7
Texture, Rhythmic Synchrony, and Tonal Fusion in Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, In for a Pound	6
Dreams Realized	5
Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)	4
Alanis Morissette’s Voices	4
Cadential Melodies	4
Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs	4
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity	3
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained	3
Symmetrical Structures in Xenakis’s Okho : At the Intersection of Mathematics and Literature	3
Commentary	3
Lines and Points: Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings	3
Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada	2
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice	2
Commentary	2
Music from Plant Biosignals	2
Global Philosophy of Music	2
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies	2
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists	1
Weird, Menacing, and Colorful	1
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music	1

The Common Cold	1
What Does a Corpus of Music Represent? Commentary on “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies”	1
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Dispersed Meter in Elizabethan Polyphony	1
The Evolution of Improvisation in Early Jazz Piano Pedagogy	1
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Prosodic Dissonance	1
Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata	1
Analyzing Vocables in Rap	1
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce	1
Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)	1
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Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs	1
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Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence	1
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales	1
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Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space	1
Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–2021	1
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Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)	0
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory	0
Commentary	0
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity	0
Music Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism	0
Beyond Strophic	0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–2020	0
The Classical Concerto First-Movement Cadenza	0
Switch Up the Groove	0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)	0
Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses	0
Translation of Dobri Hristov’s “Metric and Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music”	0
Chord Tone or Harmonic-Bass Divorce? An Enactive Approach to Hearing Pedals in Popular Music	0
“At One End of the Endless Universe”	0
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 Music	0
“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha	0
Commentary	0
Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music	0
Eric Dolphy’s and Yusef Lateef’s Synthetic Formations	0
On the Ubọ-Aka of the Igbo	0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs	0
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Between Half and Perfect Cadences	0
The Semantic Evolution of Chromatic Mediants	0
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Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)	0
Commentary	0
Review of The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting by Trevor de Clercq (Routledge, 2025)	0

Imaginary Folk Music: Investigating Unsuk Chin’s Gougalōn (2009/2012) through Cumulative Intercultural Analysis	0
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan	0
Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence	0
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows	0
The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring	0
Response to Trevor de Clercq (2025)	0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes	0
Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance	0
Against the Monochord	0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel	0
Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 2015	0
Commentary	0
Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music	0
The Embodied Folk Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten	0
Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe	0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)	0
Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre	0
Returning to the Continuum	0
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free	0
Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop	0
Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)	0
Introduction	0
Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès	0
Out of the Blue	0
Koizumi Fumio on Nuclear Tones	0
George Walker’s Piano Music	0
Review of Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press, 2022)	0
Review of Violetta Kostka, Paulo F. de Castro, and William A. Everett, eds., Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (Routledge, 2021)	0
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Harmonic “Quality” and Set-Class Structure	0
The Many Paths of Decolonization	0
Commentary	0
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method	0
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Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice	0
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 1	0
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Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro	0
Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy	0
Embedded Music Theory	0
Reimagining Organicism	0
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Gestural Forces in Steve Reich’s Augmentation-as-Process Works	0
Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”	0
Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts	0
Review of Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing , by Fernando Benadon (Oxford University Press, 2024)	0
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Redrawing Analytical Lines	0
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Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation	0
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Introduction	0
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers	0
“Cueing” Your Playlist	0
Modes in Klezmer Music	0
Theoretical/Theological Revelations: Reflections on Three Songs from G.E.M.’s Revelation	0
Mixed Rhythms in Chopin’s Ballades and Scherzos	0
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Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony inBarton Fink	0
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Rethinking Topic Theory	0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera	0
The Expositional Rondo	0
Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music	0
Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho	0
Injury, Affirmation, and the Disability Masquerade in Ye’s “Through the Wire”	0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”	0
A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint	0
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“Feel the Emptiness”	0
Sonata Form in Spain: Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s Seis sonatas (1780)	0
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music	0
Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni	0
Sociable Musicopoetics in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s In What Language	0
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal	0
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s an	0
On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz	0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu	0

Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley	0
Conference Report	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
Performing Meter	0
Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)	0
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception	0
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor	0
Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker	0
György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto in the Light of the Article “. . . how time passes . . .” by Karlheinz Stockhausen	0
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz	0