Publications

Is Key Real?” SMT-Pod 1/7, 2022 (peer-reviewed professional podcast) https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season01/#e1.7

“Figuring Out Forensic Musicology: ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ ‘Taurus,’ and a Brief History of the Drooping Schema,” Die Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Proceedings, 2021, pp. 17–32

“Common Chord Progressions and Feelings of Remembering,” third author, with Ivan Jimenez and Tuire Kuusi, Music & Science 3, 2020, pp. 1–16

“Starting the Twentieth Century with a Bang!: A Lesson Plan for Whole-Tone Scales in Tosca,” The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, Leigh VanHandel, ed., 2020, pp. 239–243







“Beginnings for Beginners: A Pedagogy for Starting a Prelude,” BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 49/2, 2018, pp. 248–265

“Was It Diegetic, or Just a Dream?: Music’s Paradoxical Place in the Film Inception,” SMT-V: Videocast Journal of the Society for Music Theory 4/1, 2018, https://vimeo.com/252464918

“Some Practical Issues in the Aesthetic Analysis of Popular Music,” The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, Ciro Scotto, John Brackett, Kenneth Smith, eds., 2018, 3–14

Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era, University of Michigan Press, Tracking Pop series, 2017, 330pp., https://www.press.umich.edu/3079295/hearing_harmony

Review of Ralf von Appen, André Doehring, and Allan F. Moore, ed., Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music (Ashgate), SAMPLES: Online-Publikationen der Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung 15, 2017

Review of Allan F. Moore, Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song (Ashgate), Journal of Music Theory 60/2, 2016, pp. 281–294

Review of Motti Regev, Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity (Polity), Popular Music 35/2, 2016, pp. 286–288

“David Bowie’s Final Descent,” Musicology Now, American Musicological Society blog, 2016
http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2016/01/david-bowies-final-descent.html

“Notes on Playing with Play on Notes: Babbitt’s Music as Recompositional Puzzle,” Music Theory Spectrum 37/2, 2015, pp. 297–312

Review of The Million Song Dataset (Columbia University), Journal of the Society for American Music 18/1, 2014, pp. 121–123

“Definitions of ‘Chord’ in the Teaching of Tonal Harmony,” Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie (Dutch Journal of Music Theory) 18/2, 2013, pp. 91–106
-Joseph P. Swain, “Taxonomy and Syntax in the Pedagogy of Harmonic Theory: A Response to Christopher Doll,” 18/2, 2013, pp. 107–109
-my response: “The Structure and Function of Tonal-Harmony Curricula: A Response to Joseph P. Swain,” 18/3, 2013, pp. 183–186
-Trevor de Clercq, “A Pop-Rock Theory for the Future: A Response to Christopher Doll and Joseph Swain,” 18/3, 2013, pp. 173–179
-Sergio Lasuén, “Synchronic versus Diachronic Approaches to Teaching Tonal Harmony: A Response to Christopher Doll,” 18/3, 2013, pp. 180–182
-Joseph P. Swain, “Second Response to Christopher Doll,” 18/3, 2013, pp. 187–188

“ABC-Paramount Records,” “Colpix Records,” “Doc Pomus,” “Epic Records,” “Modern Records,” “Harry Nilsson,” “Radiohead,” “Scepter/Wand Records,” “The Wrecking Crew,” Grove Music Online and The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, C. H. Garrett, ed., Oxford UP, 2013

“The Mamas and the Papas,” entry in Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture, Jacqueline Edmondson, ed., ABC-CLIO, 2013, pp. 682–683

Review of Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past (Faber and Faber), Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 68/4, 2012, pp. 763–765

Review of Lucy Green, ed., Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity: Voices across Cultures (Indiana), Popular Music 31/1, 2012, pp. 179–180

“Rockin’ Out: Expressive Modulation in Verse-Chorus Form,” Music Theory Online: A Journal of the Society for Music Theory 17/3, 2011
http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.11.17.3/mto.11.17.3.doll.html

“A Tale of Two Louies: Interpreting an ‘Archetypal American Musical Icon,’” Indiana Theory Review 29/2, 2011, pp. 71–103

Reprint of “Transformation in Rock Harmony: An Explanatory Strategy,” Rock Music, Mark Spicer, ed., The Ashgate Library of Essays on Popular Music, 2011, pp. 243–274

Review of Radiohead, Special Collector’s Edition CDs (Parlophone), Popular Music and Society 33/5, 2010, pp. 727–728

“Rock’n’roll,” entry in The Encyclopedia of African American Music, Emmett Price, Tammy Kernodle, and Horace Maxile, eds., Greenwood Press, 2010, pp. 841–847

“Transformation in Rock Harmony: An Explanatory Strategy,” Gamut: Online Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic 2, 2009, pp. 1–44
http://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=gamut

“Between Rock and a Harmony Place,” Popular Music Worlds, Popular Music Histories: Proceedings of the 2009 Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, pp. 83–91
http://www.iaspm.net/proceedings/index.php/iaspm2009/iaspm2009/paper/viewFile/763/57

Review of Gordon Thompson, Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out (Oxford), Journal of Popular Music Studies 21/3, 2009, pp. 331–335