We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of Music Theory Online.
The editorial staff of Music Theory Online is excited to announce the publication of Volume 31, no. 3, which includes seven articles and one book review. Readers of the issue will note a common theme running throughout, that of “beginnings.” Some of the articles present new studies of formative works of select composers or important source texts of musical traditions. Other articles, built carefully on evidence gleaned from treatise and score examples spanning decades, shed new light on the origins of broadly formal musical conventions.
As always, the research across the issue treats an impressive range of topics (form, rhythm, embodiment, process) over a wide-ranging set of styles and dialects (blues, klezmer, Classical, and post-tonal). We hope to see you there soon!
Best Regards,
Brent Auerbach
Editor, Music Theory Online
Articles
Symmetrical Structures in Xenakis's Okho: At the Intersection of Mathematics and Literature
Joseph Chang (McGill University)
The Embodied Folk Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten
Rachel Hottle (McGill University)
The Expositional Rondo: A New Formal Type in Pre-Classical and Classical Rondo Finales
Graham Hunt (The University of Texas at Arlington)
Modes in Klezmer Music: A Corpus Study Based on Beregovski's Jewish Instrumental Folk Music
Yonatan Malin (University of Colorado Boulder)
Daniel Shanahan (Northwestern University)
The Classical Concerto First-Movement Cadenza: Origins, Growth, Facilitating Factors and the Eventual Decline
Omer Maliniak (Harvard University)
The Evolution of Improvisation in Early Jazz Piano Pedagogy
Henry Martin (Rutgers University-Newark)
Gestural Forces in Steve Reich's Augmentation-as-Process Works
Martin Ross (University of Western Ontario)
Review
Review of Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing, by Fernando Benadon (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Sean R. Smither (The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music)