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Music Theory and the White Racial Frame by Ewell, Philip A.

“…For over twenty years, music theory has tried to diversify with respect to race, yet the field today remains remarkably white, not only in terms of the people…”
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Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz: Disentangling Theme from Improvisation in Recordings of Standard Jazz Tunes by Smither, Sean R.

“…Jazz analysts have long struggled with the ways in which tunes can be accounted for in analyses of musical structure. When analyzing the utterances jazz…”
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On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s “Muleskinner Blues” by Mitchell, Nathaniel

“…“Muleskinner Blues,” the signature song of bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe, is at once central to the bluegrass canon and yet metrically enigmatic, featuring a…”
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Hands, Fingers, Strings, and Bows: Performance Technique and Analysis in J.S. Bach’s Largo for Solo Violin by Cole, Christa

“…In this article, I draw on public-facing sources and my violinistic experience to show how attention to performance technique illustrates three different…”
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Three Sailors, Three Personalities: Choreomusical Analysis of the Solo Variations in Fancy Free by Short, Rachel

“…A thorough understanding of how music and movement synthesize is vital for deeper exploration of multimedia artworks. In this article, I demonstrate a…”
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Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy by Utne-Reitan, Bjørnar

“…This article provides a detailed discussion of the pedagogy and legacy of Ernst Friedrich Richter (1808–79). A theory teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory since…”
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Post-Recapitulatory Organization in Beethoven’s Early Sonata-Rondo Finales by Huguet, Joan

“…This paper proposes a new model of closure for Beethoven’s sonata-rondo finales that describes the wide variety of ways in which sonata and rondo elements can…”
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Mid-Exposition Modal Contrast and Francesco Galeazzi’s “Characteristic Passage” by Long, Rebecca

“…This article considers the merits of analyzing a compositional practice that occurs in some major-mode, mid-eighteenth-century sonata-form works using…”
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Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès by Donaldson, James

“…This article applies the concept of isotopy to music to trace the dynamic appearances and interactions of topics in three works by György Ligeti and Thomas…”
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A General Method For Composing a Canon Against a Cantus Firmus Using Sergei Taneev’s Double-Shifting Counterpoint by Gran, Jacob

“…This article applies Sergei Taneev’s theory of double-shifting counterpoint to the problem of composing two voices in canonic imitation against a pre-composed…”
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Pitch Registration and Harmonic Fields in Works of Pierre Boulez, Marco Stroppa, and Yukiko Watanabe by Tönies, Simon

“…This paper discusses a method for harmonic field analysis of serial and post-serial music. The method is informed by perception-oriented considerations and was…”
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Formal Functions of Drum Patterns in Post-Millennial Pop Songs, 2012–2021 by Geary, David

“…Drum patterns are fundamental to popular music’s soundscape. But the majority of music-theoretical scholarship about drum patterns focuses on their rhythmic…”
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A Thread of Recitative Ruffs: Schemas and Schenker’s Analysis of “Erbarm es, Gott” by Boyle, Matthew L. C., Sherrill, Paul

“…This article presents a schema-driven analysis of the accompanied recitative “Erbarm es, Gott” from Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion . Arguing that…”
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Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni by Neidhöfer, Christoph

“…In the panorama of post-1945 serial composition, the music of Camillo Togni (1922–1993) stands out for its distinct expressive character (Vlad 1958). This…”
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Prosodic Dissonance by Smith, Eron

“…In popular and scholarly discourse on texted music and music-speech intersections, the prevailing assumption is that the linguistic features of the lyrics…”
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Diversity in Music Corpus Studies by Shea, Nicholas, Reymore, Lindsey, White, Christopher Wm, VanHandel, Leigh, Duinker, Ben, Biamonte, Nicole

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The Turn in the Finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as Allusion to Wagner’s Parsifal by Arkle, Genevieve Robyn

“…The finale of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is saturated with turn figures. More than a traditional Baroque embellishment, in this movement the turn establishes a…”
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Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music by Lam, Nathan L.

“…The anhemitonic pentatonic scale is fundamental to Chinese music theory, and so is the concept of xuangong : transformations from one pentatonic scale to…”
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Response to Trevor de Clercq’s “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence: Commentary on Michèle Duguay’s ‘Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space by Duguay, Michèle

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Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata: Implications for Eighteenth-Century European Musicianship by Rabinovitch, Gilad, Carter-Enyi, Aaron

“…This article discusses the organization of galant schemata (Gjerdingen 2007) and its significance across the continuum of music-making from composition to…”
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