Jean-Jacques Nattiez

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 945 citations indexed

About

Jean-Jacques Nattiez is a scholar working on Music, Literature and Literary Theory and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean-Jacques Nattiez has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 945 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Music, 15 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Jean-Jacques Nattiez's work include Musicology and Musical Analysis (20 papers), Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts (10 papers) and Historical and Literary Studies (9 papers). Jean-Jacques Nattiez is often cited by papers focused on Musicology and Musical Analysis (20 papers), Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts (10 papers) and Historical and Literary Studies (9 papers). Jean-Jacques Nattiez collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Jean-Jacques Nattiez's co-authors include Carolyn Abbate, Steven Feld, Antoni Pizà, Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Martin Cooper, Don Michael Randel, John Ronsheim, Pierre Boulez, Katharine Ellis and Simha Arom and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and Notes.

In The Last Decade

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

42 papers receiving 610 citations

Hit Papers

Sound and Sentiment, Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in ... 1983 2026 1997 2011 1983 50 100 150 200 250
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Sound and Sentiment, Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression
    1983 251 citations Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Steven Feld et al. Yearbook for Traditional Music profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jean-Jacques Nattiez Canada 12 401 215 181 128 119 73 945
Carolyn Abbate United States 12 552 1.4× 180 0.8× 147 0.8× 61 0.5× 71 0.6× 30 813
Alan P. Merriam United States 14 712 1.8× 242 1.1× 104 0.6× 111 0.9× 124 1.0× 89 1.3k
Lydia Goehr United States 15 465 1.2× 151 0.7× 139 0.8× 36 0.3× 85 0.7× 48 877
Ingrid Monson United States 10 462 1.2× 125 0.6× 91 0.5× 26 0.2× 66 0.6× 30 648
Jerrold Levinson United States 23 227 0.6× 679 3.2× 81 0.4× 50 0.4× 458 3.8× 93 1.5k
Christoph Cox United States 9 175 0.4× 57 0.3× 167 0.9× 29 0.2× 56 0.5× 16 531
Douglas A. Kahn United States 8 122 0.3× 38 0.2× 72 0.4× 13 0.1× 41 0.3× 43 464
James M. M. Good United Kingdom 11 79 0.2× 182 0.8× 36 0.2× 16 0.1× 69 0.6× 22 493
Vivian Sobchack United States 16 47 0.1× 71 0.3× 43 0.2× 10 0.1× 81 0.7× 45 1.3k
Wassily Kandinsky 8 40 0.1× 125 0.6× 76 0.4× 16 0.1× 119 1.0× 48 504

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Martin, Denis‐Constant, et al.. (2016). Quand le rap sort de sa bulle. Sociologie politique d’un succès populaire. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (2010). Apories du relativisme. Circuit Musiques contemporaines. 6(2). 61–66.
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (2007). Profession musicologue. Presses de l’Université de Montréal eBooks.
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Abbate, Carolyn, et al.. (2002). Música y literatura : estudios comparativos y semiológicos. Arco Libros eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (2000). Linguistic models and the analysis of musical structures. 35(1). 379–410. 1 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1998). A comparison of analyses from the semiological point of view (the theme of Mozart's Symphony in G minor, K550). Contemporary Music Review. 17(1). 1–38. 2 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1997). Wagner Androgyne. Princeton University Press eBooks.
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1995). El pasado anterior: tiempo, estructuras y creación musical colectiva a propósito de Lévi-Strauss y el etnomusicólogo Brailoiu. 2. 1 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1995). Les trois Nornes et la petite madeleine: Les esquisses de Richard Wagner pour Siegfried's Tod (1850). Revue de musicologie. 81(2). 191–191.
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, et al.. (1991). Pierre Boulez/John Cage: correspondance et documents. Revue de musicologie. 77(2). 359–359. 4 indexed citations
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Pizà, Antoni, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, & Carolyn Abbate. (1991). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music. International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. 22(1). 111–111. 193 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, et al.. (1990). Musicologie générale et sémiologie. Revue de musicologie. 76(1). 119–119. 47 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1990). Peut-on parler de narrativité en musique?. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 10(2). 68–68. 3 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1990). Semiologia musical e pedagogia da análise. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, et al.. (1985). The Concepts of Plot and Seriation Process in Music Analysis. Music Analysis. 4(1/2). 107–107. 6 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, et al.. (1983). Sound and Sentiment, Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression. Yearbook for Traditional Music. 15. 173–173. 251 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, et al.. (1982). Varese's 'Density 21.5': A Study in Semiological Analysis. Music Analysis. 1(3). 243–243. 26 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1978). Récit musical et récit littéraire. Études françaises. 14(1-2). 93–93.
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, et al.. (1975). Fondements d'une Semiologie de la Musique. 11. 241–241. 5 indexed citations
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Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1972). Is a Descriptive Semiotics of Music Possible. Language Sciences. 5 indexed citations

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