Joel Lester

843 total citations
34 papers, 282 citations indexed

About

Joel Lester is a scholar working on Music, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Lester has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 282 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Music, 8 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 4 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Joel Lester's work include Musicology and Musical Analysis (23 papers), Music Technology and Sound Studies (8 papers) and Diverse Musicological Studies (8 papers). Joel Lester is often cited by papers focused on Musicology and Musical Analysis (23 papers), Music Technology and Sound Studies (8 papers) and Diverse Musicological Studies (8 papers). Joel Lester collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Joel Lester's co-authors include Robert O. Gjerdingen, Floyd K. Grave, Ralf Krampe, Edward T. Cone, Roy Howat, William Rothstein, Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, John Rink and David Epstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Notes, Journal of Music Theory and Music Theory Spectrum.

In The Last Decade

Joel Lester

24 papers receiving 116 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joel Lester United Kingdom 9 196 138 90 51 34 34 282
Leonard G. Ratner United States 6 185 0.9× 111 0.8× 65 0.7× 52 1.0× 25 0.7× 22 296
Arnold Whittall United Kingdom 9 230 1.2× 108 0.8× 102 1.1× 33 0.6× 13 0.4× 101 327
William Drabkin United Kingdom 7 170 0.9× 92 0.7× 76 0.8× 41 0.8× 10 0.3× 57 262
Raymond Monelle United Kingdom 8 116 0.6× 88 0.6× 56 0.6× 45 0.9× 13 0.4× 24 229
Don Michael Randel United States 9 131 0.7× 106 0.8× 69 0.8× 68 1.3× 8 0.2× 26 322
Carl Schachter United States 11 232 1.2× 214 1.6× 127 1.4× 99 1.9× 15 0.4× 29 352
Warren Darcy 7 417 2.1× 272 2.0× 115 1.3× 44 0.9× 23 0.7× 16 472
James Hepokoski United States 11 573 2.9× 348 2.5× 153 1.7× 57 1.1× 37 1.1× 35 643
Charles Seeger United States 9 176 0.9× 78 0.6× 76 0.8× 68 1.3× 9 0.3× 39 317
Pierre Boulez France 10 127 0.6× 68 0.5× 91 1.0× 52 1.0× 6 0.2× 56 259

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joel Lester

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel Lester

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lester, Joel. (2016). On Reading Music Theories from the Past. 3(2). 218–253.
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Lester, Joel. (2005). Enfoques analíticos de la música del siglo XX. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 61(3). 219–220.
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Lester, Joel. (1999). Bach's Works for Solo Violin. Oxford University Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1998). How Theorists Relate To Musicians. Music Theory Online. 4(2). 1 indexed citations
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Rink, John, Roy Howat, Eric Clarke, et al.. (1995). The Practice of Performance. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 54 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1995). Robert Schumann and Sonata Forms. 19th-Century Music. 18(3). 189–210. 13 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1995). Robert Schumann and Sonata Forms. 19th-Century Music. 18(3). 189–210. 3 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1994). Reading and Misreading: Schumann's Accompaniments to Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 56(1994). 24–53. 3 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1992). : Musical Structure and Performance . Wallace Berry.. Music Theory Spectrum. 14(1). 75–81.
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Lester, Joel, et al.. (1991). Between Modes and Keys: German Theory 1592-1802. Journal of Music Theory. 35(1/2). 267–267. 18 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel & Robert O. Gjerdingen. (1990). A Classic Turn of Phrase: Music and the Psychology of Convention. Journal of Music Theory. 34(2). 369–369. 19 indexed citations
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Gjerdingen, Robert O. & Joel Lester. (1990). The Rhythms of Tonal Music. Journal of Music Theory. 34(1). 101–101. 37 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1986). Notated and Heard Meter. Perspectives of New Music. 24(2). 116–116. 9 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1979). Articulation of Tonal Structures as a Criterion for Analytic Choices. Music Theory Spectrum. 1. 67–79. 7 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1977). Major-Minor Concepts and Modal Theory in Germany, 1592-1680. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 30(2). 208–253. 8 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1977). Major-Minor Concepts and Modal Theory in Germany, 1592-1680. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 30(2). 208–253. 1 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1974). Root-Position and Inverted Triads in Theory around 1600. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 27(1). 110–119.
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Lester, Joel. (1974). Root-Position and Inverted Triads in Theory around 1600. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 27(1). 110–119. 5 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1971). A theory of atonal prolongations as used in an analysis of the Serenade, op. 24 by Arnold Schoenberg. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations
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Lester, Joel. (1968). Pitch Structure Articulation in the Variations of Schoenberg's Serenade. Perspectives of New Music. 6(2). 22–22. 2 indexed citations

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