Since the founding of the Society for Music Theory in 1977, the Anglophone music theory discipline has extensively diversified, now encompassing manifold subfields. A pertinent question arises: how does the music theory discipline balance this diversity with a sense of unity and cohesiveness? An investigation into journal articles—one of the main ways music theory presents itself to the world—can serve as a useful entry point for this question. We develop and analyze a corpus of article abstracts published between 1979 and 2014 from four general-scope flagship periodicals: Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Analysis, and Music Theory

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1979-2014 年旗舰音乐理论期刊的内容变化

自 1977 年音乐理论学会成立以来，英语音乐理论学科已经广泛多样化，现在涵盖了多个子领域。一个相关的问题出现了：音乐理论学科如何平衡这种多样性与统一感和凝聚力？对期刊文章的调查——音乐理论向世界展示自己的主要方式之一——可以作为这个问题的有用切入点。我们开发并分析了 1979 年至 2014 年间发表的来自四个通用旗舰期刊的文章摘要语料库：Journal of Music Theory、Music Theory Spectrum、Music Analysis 和 Music Theory