Music Theory Online Volume 31, Number 3

Volume 31 Number 3, September 2025

Editor’s Message

Articles

Symmetrical Structures in Xenakis’s Okho: At the Intersection of Mathematics and Literature	31.3.1
Joseph Chang (McGill University)

The Embodied Folk Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten	31.3.2
Rachel Hottle (McGill University)

The Expositional Rondo: A New Formal Type in Pre-Classical and Classical Rondo Finales	31.3.3
Graham Hunt (The University of Texas at Arlington)

Modes in Klezmer Music: A Corpus Study Based on Beregovski’s Jewish Instrumental Folk Music	31.3.4
Yonatan Malin (University of Colorado Boulder) Daniel Shanahan (Northwestern University)

The Classical Concerto First-Movement Cadenza: Origins, Growth, Facilitating Factors and the Eventual Decline	31.3.5
Omer Maliniak (Harvard University)

The Evolution of Improvisation in Early Jazz Piano Pedagogy	31.3.6
Henry Martin (Rutgers University-Newark)

Gestural Forces in Steve Reich’s Augmentation-as-Process Works	31.3.7
Martin Ross (University of Western Ontario)

Review

Review of Swinglines: Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing, by Fernando Benadon (Oxford University Press, 2024)	31.3.8
Sean R. Smither (The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music)

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