Publications

Scotto, Ciro G. The Routledge Companion to Metal Composition: Structures, Expressions, and Productions.. Edited by Ciro G. Scotto and Lori Burns. Routledge Press 2024, Forthcoming.

Scotto, Ciro. “‘Dream Theater’s The Astonishing: The Unification of the Literary and Musical.’”. In. Routledge Press, Forthcoming.

Scotto, Ciro. “The Studio’s Function in Creating Distortion Related Compositional Structures in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal”. In Distortion in Music Production, 201-15. 2023. Reprint, London, New York: Routledge Publishing, 2023.

Scotto, Ciro, Kenneth M Smith, and John Brackett. “The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches”. Routledge, 2019.

Scotto, Ciro, Kenneth M Smith, and John Brackett. “The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches”. Routledge, 2018.

Scotto, Ciro. “Reconciling Order and Content and Their Unification in Scherzo for Piano by Charles Wuorinen”. Perspectives of New Music 56, no. 2 (2018): 267-304.

Scotto, Ciro. “The Structural Role of Distortion in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal”. Music Theory Spectrum 38, no. 2 (2016): 178-99.

Scotto, Ciro. “The Interpretation of a Musical Language from the Perspective of a Compositional Unit”. Perspectives of New Music 52, no. 2 (2014): 325-44.

Scotto, Ciro. “Reexamining PC-Set Multiplication, Complex Multiplication, and Transpositional Combination to Determine Their Formal and Functional Equivalence”. Perspectives of New Music 52, no. 1 (2014): 134-216.

Scotto, Ciro. “Music Theory at the Turn of the Millennium And‘ The Open Space Magazine’”. Department of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, 2004.