PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles 

Duinker, Ben. 2025 (forthcoming). “Teaching Form from the Performer’s Perspective.” Music Theory and Analysis.

Duinker, Ben. 2025 (forthcoming). “Auto-Tune as Instrument: Trap Music’s Embrace of a Repurposed Technology.” Popular Music.

Shea, Nicholas, Lindsey Reymore, Christopher Wm. White, Ben Duinker, Leigh Van Handel, Matthew Zeller, and Nicole Biamonte. 2024. “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies.” Music Theory Online 30 (1).

Duinker, Ben. 2023. “Rhythmic Theory Pedagogy, Ways of Knowing, and Experiential Learning.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37: 35–66.

Loria, Tristan, Ben Duinker, Timothy Roth, Michael Thaut, and Aiyun Huang. 2023. “Please Unmute your Microphone: Comparing the Effectiveness of Remote vs. In-Person Percussion Training.” Musicae Scientiae. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649231199853

Duinker, Ben. 2022. “Interpretive Difficulty as a Structural Agent in Contemporary Music.” Journal of Music Theory 66 (2).

Duinker, Ben. 2022. “When Hip-Hop Accents Collide (They Create Syncopation).” SMT-V 8 (6).

Duinker, Ben. 2022. “Functions of Expressive Timing in Hip-Hop flow.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 34 (1): 90–117.

Duinker, Ben. 2021. “Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation.” Music Theory Online 27 (4).

Duinker, Ben. 2021. "Segmentation, Phrase, and Meter in Hip-Hop Music." Music Theory Spectrum 43 (2): 221–245.

Duinker, Ben. 2020. “Song Form and Mainstreaming in Hip-Hop Music.” Current Musicology 107: 93–135.

Duinker, Ben. 2019. “Plateau Loops and Hybrid Tonics in Recent Pop Music.” Music Theory Online 25 (4).

Duinker, Ben. 2019. “Good Things Come in Threes: Triplet Flow in Recent Hip-Hop Music.” Popular Music 38 (3): 423–456.

Duinker, Ben, and Hubert Léveillé Gauvin. 2017. “Changing Content in Flagship Music Theory Journals, 1979–2014.” Music Theory Online 23 (4).

Duinker, Ben, and Denis Martin. 2017. “In Search of the Golden Age Hip-Hop Sound (1986–1996).” Empirical Musicology Review 12 (1–2): 80–100.

Dissertation

Duinker, Ben. 2020. “Diversification and Post-Regionalism in North American Hip-Hop Flow.” PhD Dissertation, McGill University.

Book Chapters

Duinker, Ben. 2013. “Rebonds: Thoughts on Structure and Performance.” In Xenakis Matters, edited by Sharon Kanach, 219–230. New York: Pendragon Press.

Book Reviews

Duinker, Ben. 2023. “Review – Focal Impulse Theory.” Music Theory Spectrum 45 (2): 357–361.

Duinker, Ben. 2021. “Review – Rhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the Beat.” Indiana Theory Review 37: 158–172.

Conference Proceedings

Duinker, Ben. 2024 (forthcoming). “MF DOOM et ‘High Art’ Hip-Hop.” In Proceedings of Musicaliser la langue : le flow et la voix dans le rap. Université de Paris.

Martin, Denis, and Ben Duinker. 2016. “Analyzing Sonic Similarity in Hip-Hop through Critical Listening and Music Theory.” In Proceedings of the 140th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society. Paris: Palais de Congrès.

Donald, Erika, Ben Duinker, and Eliot Britton. 2011. “Designing the EP Trio: Instrument Identities, Control, and Performance Practice in an Electronic Chamber Music Ensemble.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 491–494. Oslo: University of Oslo and Norwegian Academy of Music.

Public Scholarship

Bernier-Robert, Amélie, and Ben Duinker. 2023. “Blend,” “Klangfarbenmelodie,” and “Spectrogram.” ACTOR’s Timbre Lingo Series. www.timbreandorchestration.org/publications/writings/timbre-lingo

Noble, Jason, Ben Duinker, and Matthew Zeller. 2023. “Cross Modal Cameron.” ACTOR EduFilm 2. https://youtu.be/WwaoH-JVoeE

Heng, Lena, and Ben Duinker. 2023. “Timbre and Cue Redundancy.” ACTOR EduFilm 3. https://youtu.be/9Fm8sK1kQew?si=bLeQXjEWNyIYeoux

Marchand Knight, Jay, and Ben Duinker. 2023. “Does Gender have a Timbre?” ACTOR EduFilm 5. https://youtu.be/PBGRlR7wp8Ibduinker

Soden, Kit, and Ben Duinker. 2023. “The Mysteries of Orchestration.” ACTOR EduFilm 6. https://youtu.be/_0gTCBC9ZZM 

Tatar, Jeremy, and Ben Duinker. 2023. “Cover Songs and Timbre.” ACTOR EduFilm 4. https://youtu.be/PUkGTeGnrWk?si=vft7H43SHRoXeGKI

Duinker, Ben. 2022. “When Hip-Hop Accents Collide (They Create Syncopation).” SMT–V 8 (6). https://vimeo.com/645522815