This document is a brief initial guide to conducting research in music theory. It highlights significant reference sources and databases, lists some major journals and other resources in the field, and suggests some ways of beginning to look for information on a topic.

Initially compiled in 2014 at Harvard; revised w/Gettysburg College…[Read more]

An authoritative thematic catalog for the Star Wars film franchise, including music notation, hyperlinks, and theoretical explanation of leitmotifs, incidental motifs, and associative progressions.

Most recent update (Feb 2019) includes Source Music, Concert Arrangements, End Credits, and music notation for Incidental Motifs.

An authoritative thematic catalog for the Star Wars film franchise, including up-to-date music notation, hyperlinks, and theoretical explanation of leitmotifs, incidental motifs, and associative progressions.

An analysis of Jerome-Joseph de Momigny’s (1803) account of Mozart’s D Minor String Quartet, K. 421

Review of Steven Rings, Tonality and Transformation (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Extreme metal music, with its consummate loudness and distortion, and intransigent culture of transgressiveness, resists analysis. This dissertation embraces extreme metal’s liveliness and channels it toward a broad cultural and musical analysis, exploring avenues of loudness, rhythm and ecocriticism. The study of extreme metal opens a window on l…[Read more]