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| On some computational models of music theory J Rahn Computer Music Journal 4 (2), 66-72, 1980 | 31 | 1980 |
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| What is valuable in art, and can music still achieve it? J Rahn Music Inside Out, 147-159, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
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| Cool tools: Polysemic and non-commutative Nets, subchain decompositions and cross-projecting pre-orders, object-graphs, chain-hom-sets and chain-label-hom-sets, forgetful … J Rahn Journal of Mathematics and Music 1 (1), 7-22, 2007 | 17 | 2007 |
| Lines (of and about Music). J Rahn Princeton University, 1974 | 17 | 1974 |
| How do you DU (by Milton Babbitt)? J Rahn Perspectives of New Music, 61-80, 1976 | 16* | 1976 |
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| “Mille Plateaux, You Tarzan: A Musicology of (An Anthropology of (An Anthropology of A Thousand Plateaus)).” J Rahn Perspectives of New Music 46 (2), 250, 2008 | 13 | 2008 |
