Virgil Thomson

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 433 citations indexed

About

Virgil Thomson is a scholar working on Music, Sociology and Political Science and Museology. According to data from OpenAlex, Virgil Thomson has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 433 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Music, 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science and 1 paper in Museology. Recurrent topics in Virgil Thomson's work include Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 papers), Music History and Culture (4 papers) and Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 papers). Virgil Thomson is often cited by papers focused on Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 papers), Music History and Culture (4 papers) and Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 papers). Virgil Thomson collaborates with scholars based in . Virgil Thomson's co-authors include Stanley Sadie, Susan T. Sommer, Michael Tilson Thomas, William Morris, Gertrude Stein, John Kirkpatrick, Gilbert Chase, Henry Cowell, Leonard Bernstein and Paul Bowles and has published in prestigious journals such as Notes, Music Educators Journal and American Music.

In The Last Decade

Virgil Thomson

7 papers receiving 231 citations

Hit Papers

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1981 2026 1996 2011 1981 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
    1981 401 citations Susan T. Sommer, William Morris et al. Notes profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Virgil Thomson 5 225 66 64 55 47 17 433
Susan T. Sommer 6 238 1.1× 69 1.0× 64 1.0× 59 1.1× 46 1.0× 11 457
Claude V. Palisca 11 212 0.9× 91 1.4× 74 1.2× 64 1.2× 59 1.3× 45 432
Michael Tilson Thomas United States 4 241 1.1× 71 1.1× 63 1.0× 56 1.0× 52 1.1× 10 457
Leo Treitler United States 12 185 0.8× 42 0.6× 69 1.1× 88 1.6× 41 0.9× 51 374
Joseph Kerman United States 10 387 1.7× 87 1.3× 27 0.4× 18 0.3× 65 1.4× 73 512
Martin Thom United Kingdom 6 82 0.4× 51 0.8× 43 0.7× 23 0.4× 30 0.6× 16 282
Suzanne G. Cusick United States 8 197 0.9× 43 0.7× 27 0.4× 11 0.2× 35 0.7× 25 322
Edward A. Lippman United States 9 241 1.1× 130 2.0× 19 0.3× 10 0.2× 68 1.4× 31 535
Richard Taruskin United States 17 687 3.1× 144 2.2× 62 1.0× 38 0.7× 160 3.4× 99 914
Carl Dahlhaus Germany 15 613 2.7× 232 3.5× 28 0.4× 22 0.4× 150 3.2× 126 885

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Fields of papers citing papers by Virgil Thomson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Virgil Thomson

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
1.
Thomson, Virgil, et al.. (2014). Music chronicles, 1940-1954.
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Thomson, Virgil & Gertrude Stein. (2008). Four Saints in Three Acts. 4 indexed citations
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Thomson, Virgil, et al.. (1999). From the steeples and the mountains.
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Bernstein, Leonard, et al.. (1993). What is American music? . What is orchestration?. 1 indexed citations
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Bowles, Paul, et al.. (1990). Paul Sperry sings romantic American songs.
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Jackson, Richard, et al.. (1990). Democratic Souvenirs: An Historical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Music. American Music. 8(3). 368–368. 1 indexed citations
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Thomson, Virgil, et al.. (1989). The Composer and Performer and Other Matters: A Panel Discussion with Virgil Thomson and Philip Glass, Moderated by Gregory Sandow. American Music. 7(2). 181–181. 1 indexed citations
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Thomson, Virgil. (1988). Letters to Gertrude Stein, 1926-38. Grand Street. 7(2). 50–50.
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Sommer, Susan T., William Morris, Virgil Thomson, Michael Tilson Thomas, & Stanley Sadie. (1981). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Notes. 38(1). 45–45. 401 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thomson, Virgil, et al.. (1974). "American Music Since 1910 [...] with an introduction by Nicolas Nabokov. Seria "Twentieth-Century Composers", pod red. A. Kallin i N. Nabokova, t. 1", Virgil Thomson, New York - Chicago - San Francisco 1971 : [recenzja] / Elżbieta Szczepańska-Gołas.. 19. 1 indexed citations
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Thomson, Virgil, et al.. (1971). Intervallic Structural Elements in Ives's Fourth Symphony. Perspectives of New Music. 9(2). 291–291. 4 indexed citations
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Thomson, Virgil. (1971). American Music since 1910. 7. 186–186. 8 indexed citations
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Thomson, Virgil. (1966). A Virgil Thomson Reader. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 8 indexed citations
14.
Copland, Aarón, et al.. (1964). From Modern Music: Some Representative Passages. Perspectives of New Music. 2(2). 21–21. 1 indexed citations
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Thomson, Virgil. (1964). The Art of Judging Music. Music Educators Journal. 51(2). 37–40. 1 indexed citations
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Thomson, Virgil, et al.. (1961). Invitation to music. 1 indexed citations
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Chase, Gilbert & Virgil Thomson. (1951). Music Right and Left. Notes. 8(2). 346–346. 1 indexed citations

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