Music Theory Online Volume 32, Number 3

Volume 32 Number 3, September 2026

Editor’s Message

Articles

Music and the Aesthetics of the Asset Form	32.3.1
Eric Drott (University of Texas at Austin)

Woody Guthrie’s “Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling” Hypermeter and Phrase Rhythm	32.3.2
Ryan H. Jones (Eastman School of Music)

Unison Opening as Schema in Post-1945 Compositions	32.3.3
Noah Kahrs (Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music)

Genre Topics as Narrative in Yoasobi’s “Idol” (2023)	32.3.4
Noriko Manabe (Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music)

The Semi-Chromatic Genus of Juan Bermudo	32.3.5
Nicolás Medina (McGill University)

The Rule-of-the-Octave Hypothesis: A Quantitative Study of Tonality in François Couperin’s Concerts	32.3.6
Johannes Menke (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel Academy of Music) Markus Neuwirth (Anton Bruckner University) Johannes Hentschel (Anton Bruckner University) Martin Rohrmeier (Ècole Polytechnique Fèdèrale de Lausanne)

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