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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal13
“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail11
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music8
Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs4
Review of Malawey, Victoria,A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice(Oxford University Press, 2020)4
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Alanis Morissette’s Voices3
Cadential Melodies3
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
Developing Musical Imagery3
Onset and Contiguity3
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought3
Review of Megan Kaes Long,Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century(Oxford University Press, 2020)3
Reframing Generated Rhythms and the Metric Matrix as Projections of Higher-Dimensional Lattices in Scott Joplin’s Music2
Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada2
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice2
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists2
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained2
Commentary2
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Three Audiovisual Correspondences in the Main Title forVertigo2
Global Philosophy of Music2
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity2
A Cognitive Basis for Choosing a Solmization System2
Material Connections2
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies2
Prosodic Dissonance1
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music1
Analyzing Vocables in Rap1
Cage’s Imitation Game: Cheap Imitation and Song Books through the sketches1
Archival Research in Music1
Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs1
A Bevy of Biases1
The Common Cold1
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
Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence1
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Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata1
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce1
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Switching the Backbeat1
“Feel the Emptiness”0
Was Mesopotamian Tuning Diatonic? A Parsimonious Answer0
Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony inBarton Fink0
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On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
Review of Laura Emmery, Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets: A Study in Sketches (Routledge, 2020)0
Emergent Modality0
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
“At One End of the Endless Universe”0
Reimagining Organicism0
Mixture Strategies0
Tonal Ebb, Sunken II Chords, and Text-Music Correspondences in Robert Schumann’s Lieder0
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)0
Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows0
What Are the Truly Aural Skills?0
Rethinking Aural Skills Instruction through Cognitive Research0
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The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music0
Romantic Periods0
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Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy0
Brahmsian Articulation0
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Sonic Bridges and Pitch-Based Bonding in Two Songs by Saariaho0
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Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
Reimagining Formal Functions in Post-Tonal Music0
Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 20
Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences0
Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space0
Harmonic “Quality” and Set-Class Structure0
Commentary0
Koizumi Fumio on Nuclear Tones0
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Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni0
Sociable Musicopoetics in Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s In What Language0
Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980s0
Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop0
Generic Norms, Irony, and Authenticity in the AABA Songs of the Rolling Stones, 1963–19710
Flexible Ostinati, Groove, and Formal Process in Craig Taborn’sAvenging Angel0
Embedded Music Theory0
Out of the Blue0
War and the Musical Grotesque in Crumb’s “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”0
Performing Analysis, Performing Metal0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–20200
Conference report0
Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
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Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 20150
Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
Encoding Post-Spectral Sound0
Asymmetrical Meter, Ostinati, and Cycles in the Music of Tigran Hamasyan0
Introduction0
The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal0
Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music0
The Functions of Continuous Processes in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music0
Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”0
Klangfarbenmelodie in 1911: Timbre’s Functional Roles in Webern’s Opp. 9 and 100
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory0
Performing Meter0
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Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts0
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Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)0
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Between Half and Perfect Cadences0
Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music0
On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”0
Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–20210
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Structural Density and Clarity, Technical Death Metal, and Anomalous’s “Ohmnivalent”0
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Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation0
Injury, Affirmation, and the Disability Masquerade in Ye’s “Through the Wire”0
Translation of Dobri Hristov’s “Metric and Rhythmic Fundamentals of Bulgarian Folk Music”0
Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
Review of Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
George Walker’s Piano Music0
Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès0
Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music (Oxford University Press, 2020)0
A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint0
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz0
Review of John Paul Ito, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2020)0
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The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring0
Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau0
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
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
Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker0
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’sViolin Phaseand the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs0
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor0
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity0
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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
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Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance0
Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley0
Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe0
Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre0
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s an0
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan0
On the Ubọ-Aka of the Igbo0
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method0
Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)0
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Review of Violetta Kostka, Paulo F. de Castro, and William A. Everett, eds., Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (Routledge, 2021)0
Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)0
“Your Soul is the Whole World”: The Spaces of Claude Vivier’s Siddhartha0
Integration, Urbanity, and Multi-Dimensionality in Schoenberg’s First Quartet0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
Rethinking Topic Theory0
The Many Paths of Decolonization0
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Macroharmonic Progressions through the Discrete Fourier Transform0
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers0
Returning to the Continuum0
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Conference Report0
Sometimes the Music Wins0
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