Music Theory Online Volume 31, Number 4

Volume 31 Number 4, December 2025

Editor’s Message

Articles

Mixed Rhythms in Chopin’s Ballades and Scherzos	31.4.1
Soo Kyung Chung (University of Missouri—Kansas City)

Sonata Form in Spain: Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s Seis sonatas (1780)	31.4.2
Bryan Stevens Espinosa (Sam Houston State University)

Chord Tone or Harmonic-Bass Divorce? An Enactive Approach to Hearing Pedals in Popular Music	31.4.3
Stephen Hudson (Occidental College) Jiayi Wang (Occidental College)

Lines and Points: Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings	31.4.4
Timothy A. Johnson (Ithaca College)

Weird, Menacing, and Colorful: Bernard Herrmann”s Harmonic Polytonality	31.4.5
Daniel Moreira (Instituto Politécnico do Porto and University of Coimbra)

Against the Monochord: Numbers, String Lengths, and the History of Music Theory	31.4.6
Caleb Mutch (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)

Dispersed Meter in Elizabethan Polyphony	31.4.7
Zoe Tall Weiss (University of Denver)

Analyzing Unruly Themes: William E. Caplin, Clemens Kühn, and Carl Dahlhaus	31.4.8
Laurence Sinclair Willis (Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien)

Commentaries

What Does a Corpus of Music Represent? Commentary on “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies”	31.4.9
Trevor de Clercq (Middle Tennessee State University)

Response to Trevor de Clercq (2025)	31.4.10
Nicholas Shea (Arizona State University) Lindsey Reymore (Arizona State University) Christopher Wm. White (UMass Amherst) Ben Duinker (McGill University) Leigh VanHandel (University of British Columbia) Matthew Zeller (Musical Instrument Museum) Nicole Biamonte (McGill University)

Review

Review of The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting by Trevor de Clercq (Routledge, 2025)	31.4.11
Drew Nobile (University of Oregon)

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