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Music Theory Online is peer reviewed and open access, and has been in continuous publication since 1993. If you value MTO and other free SMT services, please take a few moments to join SMT. Membership grants a number of benefits which non-members do not enjoy. 

The Society for Music Theory also publishes the print journal Music Theory Spectrum, which is included in SMT membership.

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Date	Author(s)	Title and link
June 6, 2016	Jennifer Snodgrass, Juan Chattah, Melissa Hoag, Jena Root, Elizabeth Sayrs, and Matthew Shaftel	Integration, Diversity, and Creativity: Reflections on the 'Manifesto' from the College Music Society
May 1, 2014	John Covach	"To MOOC or Not To MOOC?"
July 18, 2012	David Blake	Timbre as Differentiation in Indie Music
July 18, 2012	Anna Gawboy and Justin Townsend	Scriabin and the Possible
May 29, 2012	Daniel Barolsky andPeter Martens	Rendering the Prosaic Persuasive
May 29, 2012	Alan Dodson	Solutions to the "Great Nineteenth-Century Rhythm Problem"
May 29, 2012	Michael Schutz and Fiona Manning	Looking Beyond the Score
May 25, 2012	Daniel Leech-Wilkinson	Compositions, Scores, Performances, Meanings
May 25, 2012	Peter Martens	Tactus in Performance
May 25, 2012	Mitchell S. Ohriner	Grouping Hierarchy and Trajectories of Pacing in Performances of Chopin's Mazurkas
February 3, 2012	David Temperley	Scalar Shifts in Popular Music
January 27, 2012	Julian Hook	How to Perform Impossible Rhythms
January 20, 2012	Karen Bottge	Reading Adorno's Reading of the Rachmaninov Prelude in C-sharp Minor