Topic · Musicology and Musical Analysis
Most cited papers in Musicology and Musical Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Musicology and Musical Analysis?
The most cited paper in Musicology and Musical Analysis is "Tonal Consonance and Critical Bandwidth" (Reinier Plomp, Willem J. M. Levelt, 1965), with 785 citations. Next come "Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception." (600) and "Instrumental methods of analysis" (554).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 112 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tonal Consonance and Critical Bandwidth Reinier Plomp, Willem J. M. Levelt · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Oct 1965 | 785 |
| 2 | Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception. K. Peter Etzkorn, Richard D. Leppert, Susan McClary · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | Sep 1988 | 600 |
| 3 | Instrumental methods of analysis Laszlo Pataki, E. Zapp · Elsevier eBooks | 1980 | 554 |
| 4 | Some Exploratory Findings on the Development of Musical Tastes Morris B. Holbrook, Robert M. Schindler · Journal of Consumer Research | Jun 1989 | 553 |
| 5 | On the Well-Posedness of the Kirchhoff String Alberto Arosio, Stefano Panizzi · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society | 1996 | 549 |
| 6 | The Influence Of Musical Structure On Emotional Expression Alf Gabrielsson, Erik Lindström | 30 Aug 2001 | 477 |
| 7 | Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives George E. Lewis · Black Music Research Journal | 1996 | 413 |
| 8 | A Philosophy of Music Education: Advancing the Vision Michael L. Mark · Music Educators Journal | Sep 2003 | 410 |
| 9 | Emotions In Everyday Listening To Music JOHN A. SLOBODA, Susan A. O’Neill | 30 Aug 2001 | 394 |
| 10 | Spencer Wells' Forceps John Kirkup · Journal of Medical Biography | Aug 2005 | 375 |
| 11 | Music and Language Steven Feld, Aaron A. Fox · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 1994 | 373 |
| 12 | SISTER JOSEPH'S NODULE V. T. Flynn, B. K. Spuerett · The Medical Journal of Australia | Apr 1969 | 363 |
| 13 | Music Theory and the White Racial Frame Philip A. Ewell · Music Theory Online | Jun 2020 | 356 |
| 14 | Music and Identity Simon Frith | 5 Jul 2017 | 355 |
| 15 | Doing anthropology in sound Steven Feld, Donald Lawrence Brenneis · American Ethnologist | Nov 2004 | 354 |
| 16 | Time's arrow and archimedes' point Joel L. Lebowitz · Journal of Statistical Physics | Apr 1997 | 346 |
| 17 | Who Enjoys Listening to Sad Music and Why? Jonna K. Vuoskoski, William Forde Thompson, Doris J. F. McIlwain et al. · Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal | Dec 2011 | 344 |
| 18 | The Sight of Sound: Music Representation and the History of the Body Steve Sweeney‐Turner, Richard D. Leppert · The Musical Times | Mar 1994 | 331 |
| 19 | Oper. Theory Adv. Appl. Seppo Hassi, Hendrik S. V. de Snoo | 2006 | 320 |
| 20 | Philosophy of Modern Music William E. Webster, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1976 | 317 |
| 21 | Vocal expression of affect Patrik N. Juslin, Klaus R. Scherer | 20 Oct 2005 | 317 |
| 22 | Music and the Global Order Martin Stokes · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2004 | 305 |
| 23 | The Geometry of Musical Chords Dmitri Tymoczko · Science | 6 Jul 2006 | 291 |
| 24 | The Non-diegetic Fallacy: Film, Music, and Narrative Space Ben Winters · Music and Letters | 26 Apr 2010 | 288 |
| 25 | Music and the materialization of identities Georgina Born · Journal of Material Culture | Dec 2011 | 288 |
| 26 | Here and Now James W. Garson · The Monist | 1969 | 283 |
| 27 | Philosophy of Modern Music Robert S. Nichols · Music Educators Journal | Dec 1974 | 271 |
| 28 | Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical Experience Douglas J. Dempster, Peter Kivy · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1991 | 259 |
| 29 | Music and Society in Early Modern England Penelope M. Gouk · Folklore | 3 Nov 2011 | 256 |
| 30 | Music, Art, and Metaphysics: Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics Alan H. Goldman, Jerrold Levinson · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1992 | 256 |
| 31 | Anthropology and Voice Amanda J. Weidman · Annual Review of Anthropology | 27 Jun 2014 | 251 |
| 32 | Studying Popular Music Susan McClary · Popular Music | May 1991 | 248 |
| 33 | The String Landscape, the Swampland, and the Missing Corner Federico Carta, Cumrun Vafa, T. Daniel Brennan | 23 Feb 2018 | 246 |
| 34 | After Adorno : rethinking music sociology Tia DeNora, Theodor W. 1903-1969 Adorno | 2003 | 246 |
| 35 | Generalized Voice-Leading Spaces Clifton Callender, Ian Quinn, Dmitri Tymoczko · Science | 17 Apr 2008 | 231 |
| 36 | Queering the pitch: The new gay and lesbian musicology Mario J. S. G. Champagne · Musicology Australia | 1994 | 205 |
| 37 | Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning Daniel K. L. Chua | 1999 | 205 |
| 38 | The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Graham Vulliamy, Norman A. Josephs, Greg Holt et al. · Popular Music | 1982 | 204 |
| 39 | Ethical Aspects of Health Care for the Elderly: An Annotated Bibliography Kapp, Marshall B. · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) | 1988 | 199 |
| 40 | Regions and place: music, identity and place Ray Hudson · Progress in Human Geography | Oct 2006 | 192 |
| 41 | How We Got Out of Analysis, and How to Get Back In Again Kofi Agawu · Music Analysis | Jul 2004 | 189 |
| 42 | The geometry of musical rhythm: what makes a “good” rhythm good? William A. Sethares · Journal of Mathematics and the Arts | 22 Apr 2014 | 180 |
| 43 | Descriptions of Improvisational Thinking by Artist-Level Jazz Musicians Martin Norgaard · Journal of Research in Music Education | 9 Jun 2011 | 177 |
| 44 | Normalizing the Abnormal: Disability in Music and Music Theory Joseph Straus · Journal of the American Musicological Society | 2006 | 173 |
| 45 | Cadential processes: The evaded cadence and the “one more time” technique Janet Schmalfeldt · Journal of Musicological Research | Mar 1992 | 173 |
| 46 | Effects of dance/movement therapy: A meta-analysis Meredith Ritter, Kathryn Graff Low · The Arts in Psychotherapy | 1996 | 172 |
| 47 | Music and everyday life Simon Frith · Critical Quarterly | Apr 2002 | 171 |
| 48 | African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer, Simha Arom, Martin Thom et al. · The International Journal of African Historical Studies | 1992 | 171 |
| 49 | ‘PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR HISTORY’ James Blades · Music and Letters | 1972 | 169 |
| 50 | Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History Stefan Hagel | 23 Jun 2016 | 169 |
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