We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of Music Theory Online. 

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The six articles included, as is customary, span an impressive range of topics, repertoires, and approaches to theory and analysis. We, the editors and staff of Music Theory Online, bid you all hearty enjoyment, and hope the ideas in this issue spark much inspiration in and conversation among all the members of our spirited community.

Brent Auerbach
Editor-in-Chief


Editor’s Message

Beyond Strophic: Prolonged Refrains, Choruses, and Bridges in the Blues, 1923–1966
David S. Carter (Loyola Marymount University)

György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto in the Light of the Article “… how time passes …” by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Benjamin Lavastre (McGill University)

Redrawing Analytical Lines
Vivian Luong (University of Oklahoma)

Dreams Realized: Expression and Polystylism in the Art Song Settings of Langston Hughes’s “Dream Variation” by Florence Price and Margaret Bonds
Sarah Marlowe (Eastman School of Music)
Charity Lofthouse (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

“Cueing” Your Playlist: Texture and Teleology in Post-Millennial Pop
Emily Schwitzgebel (Northwestern University)

Theoretical/Theological Revelations: Reflections on Three Songs from G.E.M.’s Revelation
Xieyi (Abby) Zhang (Georgia State University)