Music Theory Online

Papers
(The TQCC of Music Theory Online 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Aus Mozart gestohlen”: Beethoven and Die Entführung aus dem Serail29
The Origins of Syncopation in Brazilian Music15
Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal7
Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought7
Analyzing Unruly Themes7
Texture, Rhythmic Synchrony, and Tonal Fusion in Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, In for a Pound6
Dreams Realized5
Alanis Morissette’s Voices4
Cadential Melodies4
Musical Eschatology in Contemporary Christian Worship Songs4
Music as Language of the Upper Realm: A Translation of Li Tsing-chu’s A General Treatise on Music (1930/1933)4
Symmetrical Structures in Xenakis’s Okho : At the Intersection of Mathematics and Literature3
Commentary3
Lines and Points: Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings3
Billy Joel’s Enharmonic Duplicity3
Willaert’s Elusive Counterpoint Explained3
Translation of Martha Ulhôa de Tupinamba’s “Métrica derramada2
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice2
Commentary2
Music from Plant Biosignals2
Global Philosophy of Music2
Diversity in Music Corpus Studies2
The Common Cold1
What Does a Corpus of Music Represent? Commentary on “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies”1
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Dispersed Meter in Elizabethan Polyphony1
The Evolution of Improvisation in Early Jazz Piano Pedagogy1
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Prosodic Dissonance1
Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata1
Analyzing Vocables in Rap1
An Idiom of Melodic-Harmonic Divorce1
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 Songs1
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Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence1
Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales1
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Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space1
Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–20211
A Survey of the Impact of COVID-19 on Music Theorists1
Weird, Menacing, and Colorful1
Intersubjectivity and Shared Dynamic Structure in Narrative Imaginings to Music1
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