Music Theory Online

Papers
(The TQCC 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
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
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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
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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Prosodic Dissonance0
Klangfarbenmelodie in 1911: Timbre’s Functional Roles in Webern’s Opp. 9 and 100
Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop0
Commentary0
The Poetics and Politics of Ambiguity0
Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)0
Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley0
Reimagining Organicism0
Reconstructing the Paris Conservatory’sCours d’Harmonie1812–1844: Discipline, Sources, Theory, and Method0
Returning to the Continuum0
Analyzing Vocables in Rap0
Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 20150
Conference report0
A Thread of Recitative Ruffs0
Rethinking Topic Theory0
A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint0
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies0
Review of Joel Lester, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, Performance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor’s Solo Piano Music0
Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free0
Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata0
Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation0
Tonal Ebb, Sunken II Chords, and Text-Music Correspondences in Robert Schumann’s Lieder0
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice0
Integration, Urbanity, and Multi-Dimensionality in Schoenberg’s First Quartet0
TheTechneof YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers0
Performing Analysis, Performing Metal0
Review of David Temperley,The Musical Language of Rock(Oxford University Press: 2018)0
Rethinking Aural Skills Instruction through Cognitive Research0
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought0
Review of Kenneth Smith and Vasilis Kallis, eds., Demystifying Scriabin (Boydell Press, 2022)0
A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception0
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce0
Analyzing the Beat in Metrically Consonant Popular Songs0
Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Toru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II0
Review of Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater, ed. Michael Buchler and Gregory J. Decker0
Xenakis’ Sieve Theory0
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
Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage”0
Talking Scores and the Dismediation of Music Notation0
“At One End of the Endless Universe”0
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Music from Plant Biosignals0
Encoding Post-Spectral Sound0
A Cognitive Basis for Choosing a Solmization System0
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Commentary0
Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera0
Review of Matthew Santa, Hearing Rhythm and Meter: Analyzing Metrical Consonance and Dissonance in Common-Practice Music (Routledge, 2020)0
Melody on the Threshold in Spectral Music0
Developing Musical Imagery0
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What Are the Truly Aural Skills?0
Alanis Morissette’s Voices0
Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy0
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Conference Report0
Emotional Tones and Emotional Texts0
On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues”0
Asymmetrical Meter, Ostinati, and Cycles in the Music of Tigran Hamasyan0
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Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe0
Who is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855)0
Onset and Contiguity0
Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
Review of Drew Nobile, Form as Harmony in Rock Music (Oxford University Press, 2020)0
Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz0
Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space0
Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence0
Review of John Paul Ito, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2020)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
Metric Modes and Fluid Meter in Mande Drumming Music0
Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni0
Sometimes the Music Wins0
Brahmsian Articulation0
Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–20200
Commentary0
The Functions of Continuous Processes in Contemporary Electronic Dance Music0
Review of Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone (University of Michigan Press, 2023)0
Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada0
Switching the Backbeat0
Romantic Periods0
War and the Musical Grotesque in Crumb’s “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”0
Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor0
Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice0
Commentary0
Global Philosophy of Music0
Cage’s Imitation Game: Cheap Imitation and Song Books through the sketches0
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists0
On the Tonic Added-Sixth Chord in Jazz0
The Pen as Camera0
Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau0
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The Melodic Organization ofThe Rite of Spring0
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan0
“Feel the Emptiness”0
Contrapuntal Direction and the Diagnosis of Compositional Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Masses0
Commentary0
Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance0
Review of Megan Kaes Long,Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century(Oxford University Press, 2020)0
8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack toFaxanadu0
Out of the Blue0
Klangfarbenmelodie, Chromophony, and Timbral Function in Arnold Schoenberg’s “Farben”0
Review of Elliott Carter Speaks: Unpublished Lectures, Edited and with an introduction by Laura Emmery (University of Illinois Press, 2021)0
Commentary0
The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Harmonic Analyses of Popular Music0
Mixture Strategies0
Translation of Shin Eun-Joo’s “Two Theories of Ujo and Pyeongjo in Pansori: Comparing Baek Daewoong’s an0
Archival Research in Music0
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel0
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales0
Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows0
Review of Violetta Kostka, Paulo F. de Castro, and William A. Everett, eds., Intertextuality in Music: Dialogic Composition (Routledge, 2021)0
Rotational Principle as Teleological Genesis in the “Annunciation of Death” Scene from Wagner’s Die Walküre0
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Prioritizing Narrative Structure in Large-Scale Film-Music Analysis: A Case Study of Dramatic Irony inBarton Fink0
The Common Cold0
Chromatic Function in Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 10
Material Connections0
Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–20210
Commentary0
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained0
Introduction0
Three Audiovisual Correspondences in the Main Title forVertigo0
Commentary0
Emergent Modality0
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The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal0
Report0
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity0
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
Review of Laura Emmery, Compositional Process in Elliott Carter’s String Quartets: A Study in Sketches (Routledge, 2020)0
Reframing Generated Rhythms and the Metric Matrix as Projections of Higher-Dimensional Lattices in Scott Joplin’s Music0
Introduction0
Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino’s Recitativo oscuro0
Cadential Melodies0
Commentary0
Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes0
Commentary0
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