Publications

de Clercq, Trevor. (Forthcoming). “A Tidy Approach to Organizing and Analyzing Musical Corpora.” New Methods and New Challenges in Empirical Musicology, edited collection sponsored by CNRS-IRCAM-Sorbonne Université. Edited by Clément Canonne and Fanny Gribenski. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

de Clercq, Trevor. (Forthcoming). “Representation in Corpus Studies of Music: Commentary on Shea’s (2022) ‘A Demographic Sampling Model and Database for Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Bias in Popular-music Empirical Research’.” Empirical Musicology Review.

de Clercq, Trevor. (Forthcoming). The Practice of Popular Music: Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting . New York, NY: Routledge.

de Clercq, Trevor. (Forthcoming). “Some Proposed Enhancements to the Operationalization of Prominence: Commentary on Michèle Duguay’s ‘Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space’.” Music Theory Online 30 (1).

de Clercq, Trevor. (Forthcoming). “A Corpus Analysis of Harmony in Country Music.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies. Edited by Daniel Shanahan, Ashley Burgoyne, and Ian Quinn. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2023). “Tempo versus Average Rates of Harmonic Rhythm in Popular Music: A Study of Three Corpora.” Musicae Scientiae 27 (3): 521-40. 

de Clercq, Trevor and Deborah Wagnon. (2022). “Blurred Lines in Allegations of Musical Intertextuality: A Response to Orosz.” Empirical Musicology Review 17 (1): 43-8.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2022). “Developing Contemporary Rhythm Skills Through Contemporary R&B.” In Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom. Edited by Melissa Hoag. New York, NY: Routledge.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2021). “The Logic of Six-Based Minor for Analyses of Harmony in Popular Music.” Music Theory Online 27 (4).

Fleshner, Nathan and Trevor de Clercq. (2021). “Technology Inside, Outside, and as the University Aural Skills Classroom.” In The Routledge Companion to Aural Skills Pedagogy: Before, In, and Beyond Higher Education, 463–461. Edited by Kent Cleland and Paul Fleet. New York, NY: Routledge.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2021). “How Should Corpus Studies of Harmony in Popular Music Handle the Minor Tonic?” In Proceedings of the Future Directions of Music Cognition Conference, 43–48. Edited by Joshua Albrecht, Lindsay Warrenburg, Lindsey Reymore, and Daniel Shanahan. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2020). “Rhythmic Influence in the Rock Revolution.” In The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm, 182–195. Edited by Russell Hartenberger and Ryan McClelland. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2020). “Computational Musicology in Rock.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research, 149-164. Edited by Allan Moore and Paul Carr. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2020). “Popular Music Analysis Too Often Neglects the Analysis of Popular Music: Review of Ciro Scotto, Kenneth Smith, John Brackett, eds. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge, 2019).” Popular Music 39 (2): 339-344.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2020). “Meludia: Innovative Aural Skills and Ear Training Exercises without Staff Notation.” College Music Symposium 60 (1).

de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “A Music Theory Curriculum for the 99%.” Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 7.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “The Nashville Number System: A Framework for Teaching Harmony in Popular Music.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 33: 3–28.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “1Chart: Software for Creating Nashville Number System Charts.” College Music Symposium 59 (2).

de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “Review of Lori Burns and Serge Lacasse, eds. The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music.” Notes, The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association September: 127–130.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2019). “The Harmonic-Bass Divorce in Rock.” Music Theory Spectrum 41 (2): 271–284.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “Some Reharmonization Techniques for Popular Music: Melodic Skeletons, the Melodic-Harmonic Divorce, and Meta-Schemas.” Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 6.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2018). “Review of Christopher Doll, Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era (University of Michigan Press, 2017).Music Theory Online 24 (1).

de Clercq, Trevor & Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis. (2018). “A Psychological Perspective on Repetition in Popular Music.” In Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music, 147-161. Edited by Christophe Levaux and Olivier Julien. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “Pitfalls and Windfalls in Corpus Studies of Pop/Rock Music.” In Proceedings of the Ninth European Music Analysis Conference. Edited by Pierre Couprie, Alexandre Freund-Lehmann, Xavier Hascher, and Nathalie Hérold.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “Interactions between Harmony and Form in a Corpus of Rock Music.” Journal of Music Theory 61 (2): 143–170.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “Swing, Shuffle, Half-Time, Double: Beyond Traditional Time Signatures in the Classification of Meter in Pop/Rock Music.” In Coming of Age: Teaching and Learning Popular Music in Academia, 139-167. Edited by Carlos Xavier Rodriguez. Ann Arbor, MI: Maize Books.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2017). “Embracing Ambiguity in the Analysis of Form in Pop/Rock Music, 1982–1991.Music Theory Online 23 (3).

Temperley, David & Trevor de Clercq. (2017). “Musical Structure: Melody and Harmony in Popular Music.” In The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition, 165-177. Edited by Richard Ashley and Renee Timmers. New York, NY: Routledge.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2016). “Measuring a Measure: Absolute Time as a Factor for Determining Bar Lengths and Meter in Pop/Rock Music.” Music Theory Online 22 (3).

de Clercq, Trevor. (2016). “Big Data, Big Questions: A Closer Look at the Yale-Classical Archives Corpus (c. 2015).” Empirical Musicology Review 11 (1): 59-67.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2016). “Deconstructing the Blues in the Beatles’ ‘Taxman’.” Music Theory and Analysis 3 (1): 58-70.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2016). “Review of Ralf von Appen, André Doehring, Dietrich Helms, and Allan Moore, eds. Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music (Ashgate, 2015).” Music Theory Online 22 (1).

de Clercq, Trevor. (2015). “Corpus Studies of Harmony in Popular Music: A Response to Léveillé Gauvin.” Empirical Musicology Review 10 (3): 239-244.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2015). “A Model for Scale-Degree Reinterpretation: Melodic Structure, Modulation, and Cadence Choice in the Chorale Harmonizations of J. S. Bach.” Empirical Musicology Review 10 (3): 188-206.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2015). The Nashville Number System Fake Book. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corporation.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2015). “Improvised Jazz Counterpoint: The Stylistic Characteristics of Freddie Green’s Rhythm Guitar Playing.” In Rhythm is My Beat: Jazz Guitar Great Freddie Green and the Count Basie Sound. Edited by Al Green. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2014). “Grooves, Drones, and Loops: Enhancing Aural Skills Exercises with Rock Music Contexts.” Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 2.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2013). “A Pop-Rock Theory for the Future: A Response to Christopher Doll and Joseph Swain.” Dutch Journal of Music Theory 18 (3): 173-179.

Temperley, David & Trevor de Clercq. (2013). “Statistical Analysis of Harmony and Melody in Rock Music.” Journal of New Music Research 42 (3): 187-204.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2013). “One-hit Wonders.” Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture, 819-821. Edited by Jacqueline Edmondson. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2013). “Opening tracks.” Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture, 821-822. Edited by Jacqueline Edmondson. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2013). “Towards a Flipped Aural Skills Classroom: Harnessing Recording Technology for Performance-Based Homework.” Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 1.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2012). “Sections and Successions in Successful Songs: A Prototype Approach to Form in Rock Music.” PhD dissertation, Eastman School of Music.

de Clercq, Trevor & David Temperley. (2011). “A Corpus Analysis of Rock Harmony.” Popular Music 30 (1): 47-70.

de Clercq, Trevor. (2000). “A More Realistic View of Mid/Side Stereophony.” Master’s Thesis, New York University.

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