Also see Foundational books
- Tonality
- Nicole Biamonte. Triadic Modal and Pentatonic Patterns in Rock Music.
- Nicole Biamonte. Pop/Rock Tonalities
- Walter Everett. Making Sense of Rock’s Tonal Systems
- Steingold, Marissa Leigh. Journey to the Flat Side: dualism, subdominants, stacked fourths, pentatonics, and the ‘musical left’
- Blue notes
- Double-tonic complexes
- https://www.esm.rochester.edu/integral/35-2022/ferrandino/
- https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.17.23.2/mto.17.23.2.spicer.html
- https://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.19.25.4/mto.19.25.4.duinker.html
- https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.17.23.3/mto.17.23.3.richards.html
- Drew Nobile. Double-Tonic Complexes in Rock Music
- Matthew BaileyShea. The Hexatonic and Double-Tonic: Wolf’s “Christmas Rose”
- Is "tonal pairing" the same? Smith 2013, Schultz 2012
- Melodic-harmonic divorce
- Modulation
- Misc
- Trevor de Clercq. Embracing Ambiguity in the Analysis of Form in Pop/Rock Music, 1982–1991
- David B. Easley. Riff Schemes, Form, and the Genre of Early American Hardcore Punk (1978–83)
- Christopher Endrinal. Burning Bridges: Defining the Interverse in the Music of U2
- David S. Carter. Generic Norms, Irony, and Authenticity in the AABA Songs of the Rolling Stones, 1963–1971
- Victoria Malawey. Strophic Modification in Songs by Amy Beach
- Drew Nobile. Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–2020
- Jeffrey S. Ensign. Form in Popular Song, 1990-2009
- Jeremy M. Robins. Phrase Structure, Hypermeter, and Closure in Popular Music
- Patrick Sallings. Metrical Transition and Resolution in the Music of Blindside
- Nicole Biamonte. Formal Functions of Metric Dissonance in Rock Music
- Brad Osborn. Subverting the Verse–Chorus Paradigm: Terminally Climactic Forms in Recent Rock Music
- David Heetderks. The “Rebuff Chorus” in 1960–2000 Pop Music
- Mark Spicer. (Ac)cumulative form in pop-rock music
- Cara Stroud. Codetta and Anthem Postchorus Types in Top-40 Pop from 2010 to 2015
- Megan Lavengood, “‘Oops … I Did It Again’: The Complement Chorus in Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, and *NSYNC,” SMT-V 7.6 (2021). http://www.smt-v.org/archives/volume7.html#oops-i-did-it-again-the-complement-chorus-in-britney-spears-the-backstreet-boys-and-nsync
- SMT-V 06.4 "The Dance Chorus in Recent Top-40 Music," by Alyssa Barna
- Sonic functions
- Works by Asaf Peres
- Robin Attas. Form as Process: The Buildup Introduction in Popular Music
- Ruth Dockwray and Allan F. Moore. Configuring the sound-box 1965–1972
- Megan L. Lavengood. The Cultural Significance of Timbre Analysis: A Case Study in 1980s Pop Music, Texture, and Narrative
- David K. Blake. Timbre as Differentiation in Indie Music
- Matthew Kolar. Redefining Ornamentation as Formal Functions in 21st-Century Popular Music
- John Covach. Analyzing Texture in Rock
- Kyle Hutchinson. Retrospective Time and the Subdominant Past: Tonal Hermeneutics in Contemporary Broadway Megamusicals
- Peter M. Kaminsky. Revenge of the Boomers: Notes on the Analysis of Rock Music
- Allan Moore. The Persona-Environment Relation in Recorded Song
- Christopher Endrinal. Form and Style in the Music of U2