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Research

  • Networked music theory

  • Performance kinesthetics

  • Style transmission, genre analysis

  • Music perception and cognition

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

Pedagogy

© 2025 Nicholas Shea.

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