Music Theory Online Volume 31, Number 2

Volume 31 Number 2, June 2025

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Articles

Texture, Rhythmic Synchrony, and Tonal Fusion in Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, In for a Pound	31.2.1
Guy Capuzzo (University of North Carolina Greensboro)

Switch Up the Groove: Idiosyncratic Approaches to Form and Texture in Recent Popular Music	31.2.2
Nathan Cobb (Emory University)

Music Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism: Notation, Identity, and Systemization in Dobri Hristov’s Conception of Bulgarian Meter	31.2.3
Daniel Goldberg (University of Connecticut)

Eric Dolphy’s and Yusef Lateef’s Synthetic Formations	31.2.4
Marc E. Hannaford (University of Michigan)

Imaginary Folk Music: Investigating Unsuk Chin’s Gougalōn (2009/2012) through Cumulative Intercultural Analysis	31.2.5
Gui Hwan Lee (James Madison University)

The Semantic Evolution of Chromatic Mediants: A Baroque Origin of M8M Progressions	31.2.6
Jason Yin Hei Lee (McGill University)

Historical Examination and Theoretical Analysis of Maqām Iṣfahān in Persian Art Music	31.2.7
Kioumars Poorhaydari (University of Alberta)

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