Publications
Selected publications
- Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality (Book - 2020)
- Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis (Book - 2023)
- Music in Radio Drama: The Curious Case of the Acousmatic Detective (Journal article - 2022)
- The Enigma of Entropy in Extended Tonality (Journal article - 2021)
- The Romantic-virtuosic sentence in Liszt’s B Minor Sonata, or, positive feedback as formal accelerator (Journal article - 2025)
2026
Scriabin’s “Irrlicht”: Lights, colors, and Insects in Scriabin’s tenth sonata
Forkert-Smith, K., & Costabile, I. (2026). Scriabin’s “Irrlicht”: Lights, colors, and Insects in Scriabin’s tenth sonata. In C. Flamm, L. Macchiarella, V. Kallis, & S. Nichols (Eds.), Rethinking Scriabin. New York: Oxford University Press.
2025
The Romantic-virtuosic sentence in Liszt’s B Minor Sonata, or, positive feedback as formal accelerator
Forkert-Smith, K. (2025). The Romantic-virtuosic sentence in Liszt’s B Minor Sonata, or, positive feedback as formal accelerator. Music & Letters.
2024
Skryabin’s Mystical Space and the Spectral Attitude
Smith, K. (n.d.). Skryabin’s Mystical Space and the Spectral Attitude. In The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190633547.013.14
2023
Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis
Smith, K., & Overy, S. (2023). Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis.
2022
Searching for the Light: Harmonic Cycles and Feedback Loops in Alma Mahler-Werfel's "Licht in der Nacht"
Smith, K. M. (2022). Searching for the Light: Harmonic Cycles and Feedback Loops in Alma Mahler-Werfel's "Licht in der Nacht". In B. Ravenscroft, & L. Parsons (Eds.), Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers iii. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Music in Radio Drama: The Curious Case of the Acousmatic Detective
Smith, K. (2022). Music in Radio Drama: The Curious Case of the Acousmatic Detective. Journal of the Royal Musical Association.
2021
Demystifying Scriabin
Smith, K. M., & Kallis, V. (Eds.) (2021). Demystifying Scriabin. Oxford: Boydell and Brewer.
Scriabin's "two-dimensional" accelerative forms
Smith, K. M. (2021). Scriabin's "two-dimensional" accelerative forms. In K. Smith, & V. Kallis (Eds.), Demystifying Scriabin. Oxford: Boydell & Brewer.
The Enigma of Entropy in Extended Tonality
Smith, K. M. (2021). The Enigma of Entropy in Extended Tonality. Music Theory Spectrum, 43(1), 1-18. doi:10.1093/mts/mtaa021
Diatonic refraction through metatonal spaces
Smith, K. M. (2021). Diatonic refraction through metatonal spaces. In P. Fleet (Ed.), Mining the Gap. Routledge.
2020
Pulp: a Paradigm for Perversion in Pornosonic Pop
Smith, K. M. (2020). Pulp: a Paradigm for Perversion in Pornosonic Pop. In F. Jarman, K. A. Hansen, & E. Askeroi (Eds.), Popular musicology and identity: essays in honour of Stan Hawkins. Routledge.
Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality
Smith, K. M. (2020). Desire in Chromatic Harmony: A Psychodynamic Exploration of Fin de Siècle Tonality. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/
2018
Becoming Minoritarian: Embodiment and Disembodiment in Szymanowski’s Mythes, Op. 30/I
Smith, K. M. (2018). Becoming Minoritarian: Embodiment and Disembodiment in Szymanowski’s Mythes, Op. 30/I. In N. Reyland, & R. Thumpston (Eds.), Music, Analysis, and the Body: Experiments, Explorations, and Embodiments (pp. 51-74). Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, Leuven University Press.
The Love Detective: Cybernetic Groove Cycles and the Mysteries of Desire in Arab Strap.
Overy, S., & Smith, K. (2018). The Love Detective: Cybernetic Groove Cycles and the Mysteries of Desire in Arab Strap.. In K. Smith, C. Scotto, & J. Brackett (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (pp. 364-377). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/
Vertigo's Musical Gaze: Neo-Riemannian Symmetries and Spirals
Smith, K. M. (2018). Vertigo's Musical Gaze: Neo-Riemannian Symmetries and Spirals. Music Analysis, 37(1), 68-102. doi:10.1111/musa.12109
Preface
Scotto, C., Smith, K., & Brackett, J. (2018). Preface. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, xvi-xviii. doi:10.4324/9781315544700
The routledge companion to popular music analysis: Expanding approaches
Scotto, C., Smith, K., & Brackett, J. (2018). The routledge companion to popular music analysis: Expanding approaches. doi:10.4324/9781315544700
2017
Skryabin, philosophy and the music of desire
Smith, K. M. (2017). Skryabin, philosophy and the music of desire.
Sexual Subversion and the Subdominant: the Case of Suede
Smith, K. M. (2017). Sexual Subversion and the Subdominant: The Case of Suede. Music Analysis, 36(01), 116-137. doi:10.1111/musa.12087
2016
Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology
Wilson, S. (Ed.) (n.d.). Music—Psychoanalysis—Musicology. In . Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315596563
2014
Formal Negativities, Breakthroughs, Ruptures & Continuities in the Music of Modest Mouse
Smith, K. M. (2014). Formal Negativities, Breakthroughs, Ruptures & Continuities in the Music of Modest Mouse. Popular Music, 33(3), 428-454. doi:10.1017/S0261143014000385
The Transformational Energetics of the Tonal Universe: Cohn, Rings, Tymoczko
Smith, K. M. (2014). The Transformational Energetics of the Tonal Universe: Cohn, Rings, Tymoczko. Music Analysis, 33(2), 214-256. doi:10.1111/musa.12032
2011
The Tonic Chord and Lacan's Object <i>a</i> in Selected Songs by Charles Ives
Smith, K. M. (2011). The Tonic Chord and Lacan's Object <i>a</i> in Selected Songs by Charles Ives. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION, 136(2), 353-398. doi:10.1080/02690403.2011.618726
2010
Skryabin's Revolving Harmonies, Lacanian Desire, and Riemannian<i>Funktionstheorie</i>
SMITH, K. M. (2010). Skryabin's Revolving Harmonies, Lacanian Desire, and Riemannian<i>Funktionstheorie</i>. Twentieth-Century Music, 7(2), 167-194. doi:10.1017/s1478572211000156
'A Science of Tonal Love'? Drive and Desire in Twentieth-Century Harmony: the Erotics of Skryabin
Smith, K. M. (2010). 'A Science of Tonal Love'? Drive and Desire in Twentieth-Century Harmony: the Erotics of Skryabin. Music Analysis, 29(i-ii-iii), 234-263. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2249.2011.00328.x
Lacan, Zemlinsky, and Der Zwerg: Mirror, Metaphor, and Fantasy
Smith, K. M. (2010). Lacan, Zemlinsky, and Der Zwerg: Mirror, Metaphor, and Fantasy. Perspectives of New Music, 48(2), 78-113.
Psihoanalitičeskie drajvy v garmonii Aleksandra Skrâbina
Smith, K. M. (2010). Psihoanalitičeskie drajvy v garmonii Aleksandra Skrâbina. Problemy Muzykal'noi Nauki, 7(1).
2005
Erotic Discourse in Skryabin's Fourth Sonata
Smith, K. M. (2005). Erotic Discourse in Skryabin's Fourth Sonata. British Postgraduate Musicology, 7(1). Retrieved from http://www.bpmonline.org.uk/bpm7