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Research areas

  • Networked music theory

  • Kinesthetic music performance practices

  • Style transmission, genre analysis

  • Music perception and cognition

Featured studies and methods

Networked music theory:
how global communities of musicians understand musical organization via performance practices, bodily cognition,
and crowdsourced digital artifacts like tablature, often outside of the academy.

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Nicholas J. Shea, Ph.D.

Music theory

Performance analysis

Corpus studies

© 2025 Nicholas Shea.

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