McDonald, G. (2025). Large-scale Musical Structure as Concept and as Percept. [Doctoral dissertation, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Pending Publication].
McDonald, G. (2020). Written, Spoken, Sung: Janáček and the Elements of Style. [Performance Program]. On Site Opera. The Beauty That Still Remains: Diaries in Song. November 2020, New York, NY. Program PDF.
McDonald, G., & Wöllner, C. (2023). The Contrast Principle, Typicality, and Cultural Longevity in 19th-Century Symphony Slow Movements: A Corpus Analysis. Music & Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231182275
McDonald, G., & Wöllner, C. (2022). Appreciation of form in Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier: Effects of structural interventions on perceived coherence, pleasantness, and retrospective duration estimates. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 40(2), 150-167. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2022.40.2.150
McDonald, G. (2025) Listeners’ melodic and schematic expectations of dynamic peaks [Manuscript submitted for publication].
McDonald, G., Wöllner, C., & Rittner, H. (2025). Nested temporal functions and the influence of performance characteristics on structural perception in a well-known Chopin étude [Manuscript under review].
McDonald, G. (2024). Cue abstraction and global temporal structure: A perceptual-analytical synthesis [Manuscript under review].
Wöllner, C. & McDonald, G. (2024). Typikalität und Kontrastwahrnehmung bei Bruckners langsamen Symphoniesätzen. In Diergarten, F. (Ed.), Bruckner – Aufführungspraktiken gestern, heute und morgen (pp. 97-103). Leykam.