We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of Music Theory Spectrum.
The editorial team at Music Theory Spectrum is pleased to announce publication of issue 47/2 (Fall 2025).
Articles
Varied Ostinato and the Functions of Repetition in Harrison Birtwistle’s “Frieze 2” and “Frieze 3”
Antares Boyle
Corpus Studies, Sonata Typology, and the Nineteenth-Century Violin Concerto: Viotti, Saint-Saëns, and the Challenge of Recapitulatory Compression
Julian Horton and Peter H Smith
Rossinian Reiz: Strategic Musical Irritation and the Capturing of Attention
Matthew L C Boyle
Stage-Speech Melody: Musicality, Contour Transformations, and Dramatic Narrative in Yao Chen’s Kunqü Opera Pipa Plays Opera (2015)
Yi-Cheng Daniel Wu
“It is Beethoven who leads the Reigen”: A. B. Marx and the Dance of Jewish-German Assimilation
August Sheehy
On Schemas in Tonal Jazz Repertoire
Keith Salley
Reviews
How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form
David R W Sears
Sounds as They Are: The Unwritten Music in Classical Recordings
Daniel Ketter