This article reviews studies that examine internationally circulating music which has reached
the upper echelon of all-genre single charts in the 21st century. The examinations will be …

Harmonic analyses of popular music typically take the minor tonic to be Roman numeral
“one.” By nature, this “one-based” approach requires a new numbering scheme when songs …

The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to
explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B …

This article theorizes a network of “fugitive music theory” and examines George Russell's
Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953) as a case study. Fugitive music …

The definition of “rock,” as well as its splintering, disintegrating, and combining into various
subgenres, has been a constant presence in popular music studies. 1 As a result, in this …

In some verse–prechorus–chorus (VPC) songs from 1960–1990, the prechorus sets up an
expectation for tonic arrival, only to have the subsequent chorus reject this tonal implication …

Este artículo discute el concepto de “matices musicales” desde una perspectiva procesual,
con particular énfasis en la experiencia estética de los hooks en la música popular …

Since 1973, Queen have captivated listeners through the intense sonic palette of voices and
guitars, the sprawling and epic journeys of songs, and charismatic splendour of their live …

We begin with an anecdote from one of our contributors: Shortly after receiving my PhD, I
was hired into a one-year position. In this position, I was tasked with teaching within a pre …

Traditional transformational music theory describes transformations between musical
elements as functions between sets and studies their subsequent algebraic properties and …