| Maximally smooth cycles, hexatonic systems, and the analysis of late-romantic triadic progressions R Cohn Music Analysis 15 (1), 9-40, 1996 | 535 | 1996 |
| Neo-riemannian operations, parsimonious trichords, and their" tonnetz" representations R Cohn Journal of Music Theory 41 (1), 1-66, 1997 | 485 | 1997 |
| Introduction to neo-riemannian theory: a survey and a historical perspective R Cohn Journal of Music Theory, 167-180, 1998 | 477 | 1998 |
| Audacious Euphony: Chromatic Harmony and the Triad's Second Nature R Cohn OUP USA, 2012 | 449 | 2012 |
| Uncanny resemblances: Tonal signification in the Freudian age R Cohn Journal of American Musicological Society 57 (2), 285-324, 2004 | 229 | 2004 |
| As wonderful as star clusters: Instruments for gazing at tonality in Schubert RL Cohn Schubert, 167-186, 2017 | 168 | 2017 |
| Transpositional combination of beat-class sets in Steve Reich's phase-shifting music R Cohn Perspectives of New Music, 146-177, 1992 | 161 | 1992 |
| Inversional symmetry and transpositional combination in bartók R Cohn Music Theory Spectrum, 19-42, 1988 | 141 | 1988 |
| Complex hemiolas, ski-hill graphs and metric spaces R Cohn Music Analysis 20 (3), 295-326, 2001 | 138 | 2001 |
| Hierarchical unity, plural unities: toward a reconciliation R Cohn, D Dempster Disciplining music: Musicology and its canons, 156-81, 1992 | 112 | 1992 |
| The dramatization of hypermetric conflicts in the Scherzo of Beethoven's ninth symphony RL Cohn Nineteenth-Century Music, 188-206, 1992 | 111 | 1992 |
| Weitzmann's regions, my cycles, and douthett's dancing cubes R Cohn Music Theory Spectrum 22 (1), 89-103, 2000 | 108 | 2000 |
| Harmony C Dahlhaus, J Anderson, C Wilson, R Cohn, B Hyer The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians 10, 858-877, 1980 | 106 | 1980 |
| The autonomy of motives in Schenkerian accounts of tonal music R Cohn Music Theory Spectrum 14 (2), 150-170, 1992 | 102 | 1992 |
| Square dances with cubes R Cohn Journal of Music Theory 42 (2), 283-296, 1998 | 90 | 1998 |
| Metric and Hypermetric Dissonance in the Menuetto of Mozart's Symphony in G minor, K. 550 R Cohn Intégral 6, 1-33, 1992 | 82 | 1992 |
| Bartók's octatonic strategies: A motivic approach R Cohn Journal of the American musicological society 44 (2), 262-300, 1991 | 80 | 1991 |
| Properties and generability of transpositionally invariant sets R Cohn Journal of Music Theory 35 (1/2), 1-32, 1991 | 75 | 1991 |
| A platonic model of funky rhythms R Cohn Music Theory Online 22 (2), 2016 | 63 | 2016 |
| Transpositional combination in twentieth-century music RL Cohn (No Title), 1986 | 59 | 1986 |
