Bibliographies
This page contains bibliographic information, extensive keyword lists, and acknowledgements for the video essays published by SMT-V. For the videos themselves, please see the archives.
Volume 11 (2025)
- Anabel Maler, “Music as Movement in Signed Song: Analyzing Rosa Lee Timm’s ‘River Song”
- Derek Myler, “‘Why Can’t I Do it Straightaway?’ Bluey, Joff Bush, and Accumulation”
Volume 10 (2024)
- L. Poundie Burstein with Quynh Nguyen and Jennifer Roderer: “The Best Laid Plans . . . and Others: An 18th-Century Compositional Outline”
- Brad Osborn: “Dual Leading-Tone Loops in Recent Television Dramas”
- Christoph Neidhöfer: “Directionality in Twelve-Tone Composition”
- Guy Capuzzo: Simultaneous Distinct Headbanging Patterns in Heavy Metal
- Zachary Cairns, “Whole-Tone Collections and Temporal Dislocation in Film Music”
- Liam Hynes-Tawa: “Japanese Tetrachordal Theory in Settings Old and New”
Volume 9 (2023)
- Chelsea Oden: “‘We Are Dancing, We Are Flying’: The Feeling of Flight in Dance Scenes from Recent Popular Film”
- Christine Boone: “Algorithmic Remixes”
- Rachel Short: “Interactions Between Music and Dance in Two Musical Theatre Tap Breaks”
- Nathaniel Mitchell: “Variations on a Theme by K. K. Slider: Memory and Play in Animal Crossing: New Horizons”
- Yi-Cheng Daniel Wu, “Poetry and Musical Organization in JIA Guoping’s The Wind Sounds in the Sky (2002)”
- Jeremy Orosz, “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: A New Model for Television Sound-Alikes?”
Volume 8 (2022)
- Noriko Manabe: “Abe Road: Kuwata Keisuke’s Beatles Parody”
- Scott Murphy: “Clara Schumann’s op. 16 no. 3 and ‘Fifth Above, Third Below’: Discerning Inverted Canonic Potential”
- Nicholas Shea, “The Feel of the Guitar in Popular Music Performance”
- Stanley V. Kleppinger, “Appropriating Copland’s Fanfare”
- Eron F.S., “Flat 2 as Hotness in Post-Millennial Pop”
- Ben Duinker, “When Hip-Hop Accents Collide (They Create Syncopation)”
Volume 7 (2021)
- Stephanie Probst, “Music Appreciation Through Animation: Percy Scholes’s ‘AudioGraphic’ Piano Rolls”
- Kara Yoo Leaman, “Dance as Music in George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco”
- Orit Hiliewicz and Stephen Sewell, “A Film Scene for Schoenberg’s Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene”
- Michael Buchler, “I Don’t Care if I Never Get Back: Optimism and Ascent in ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’”
- Adem Merter Birson, “Understanding Turkish Classical Makam: Identifying Modes Through Characteristic Melodies”
- Megan Lavengood, “‘Oops!…I Did It Again’: The Complement Chorus in Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and *NSYNC”
Volume 6 (2020)
- Cecilia Oinas, “Sensitivity, Intimacy, and Bodily Interaction in Kurtág’s Four-Handed Piano Works”
- Brian Edward Jarvis and John Peterson, “Detour or Bridge? Contrasting Sections and Storytelling in Musical Theater”
- Daniel Ketter, “Discovering Essential Voices in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Solo Instrumental Suite Movements”
- Alyssa Barna, “The Dance Chorus in Recent Top-40 Music”
- Aaron Carter-Ényì and Quintina Carter-Ényì, “Melodic Language & Linguistic Melodies: Text Setting in Ìgbò”
Volume 5 (2019)
- Joshua Banks Mailman, “Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part I: Freedoms”
- Joshua Banks Mailman, “Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part II: Diversities”
- Joshua Banks Mailman, “Babbitt’s Beguiling Surfaces, Improvised Inside; Part III: Opportunities”
- Scott Murphy, “‘Fifth Above, Third Below’: Discerning Canonic Potential”
- Matthew E. Ferrandino and Brad Osborn, “Seeing Stories, Hearing Stories in Narrative Music Video”
Volume 4 (2018)
- Christopher Doll, “Was it Diegetic, or Just a Dream? Music’s Paradoxical Place in the Film Inception”
- Carmel Raz, “Anne Young’s Musical Games (1801): Music Theory, Gender, and Game Design”
- Carmel Raz, “Anne Young’s Introduction to Music (1803): Pedagogical, Speculative, and Ludic Music Theory”
Volume 3 (2017)
- L. Poundie Burstein with Quynh Nguyen, “Parenthetic Aside in a 1789 Analysis of Mozart’s K. 284”
- J. Daniel Jenkins, “Schoenberg’s ‘Advice for Beginners in Composition with Twelve Tones’”
- Stephen Rodgers, “Music, Poetry, and Performance in a Song by Maria Schneider”
Volume 2 (2016)
- Harald Krebs, “The Influence of Clara Schumann’s Lieder on Declamation in Robert Schumann’s Late Songs”
- Steven Reale, “Variations on a Theme by a Rogue A.I.: Music, Gameplay, and Storytelling in Portal 2” (Part 1)
- Steven Reale, “Variations on a Theme by a Rogue A.I.: Music, Gameplay, and Storytelling in Portal 2” (Part 2)
Volume 1 (2015)
- Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, “Repetition and Musicality”
- Peter Schubert, “Contrapuntal Thinking in Haydn”
- Edward Klorman, “Multiple Musical Agency in Mozart’s Chamber Music”