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# Music Theory Spectrum (music-theory-spectrum)

## Journal positioning

Music Theory Spectrum, published by Oxford University Press for the Society for Music
Theory, is the leading journal of music theory and analysis. It publishes original work in
analytical method, the history and philosophy of music theory, and the close analysis of
specific works and repertories. Its defining expectation is a **rigorous analytical or
theoretical argument** — a new method or refinement of one, a theoretical claim defended
against rivals, or a close analysis that demonstrates something general — carried by precise,
notated musical evidence. It is distinct from `journal-of-the-american-musicological-society`,
where analysis serves a historical or cultural argument, and from
`the-journal-of-aesthetics-and-art-criticism`, which is philosophical aesthetics: Music Theory
Spectrum foregrounds analytical and theoretical method, with the notated example as the
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