Society for Music Theory 49th Annual Meeting
November 5-8, 2026
Hyatt Regency Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI, USA
Conference Agenda
The Online Program of Events for the 2026 SMT Annual Meeting appears below. Please note that we have Thursday morning sessions!
This program is subject to change. Sessions that are color coded purple indicates that all or some of the presentations are scheduled to either be remote or livestreamed. This is also subject to change.
Use the search bar to search by name or title of paper/session. Note that this search bar does not search by keyword. Click on the session name for a detailed view (with participant names and abstracts).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 12th Aug 2026, 12:17:53am CDT
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Daily Overview |
| Date: Friday, 06/Nov/2026 | |
| 7:15am - 8:15am | Norton Music Focus Group Location: Manager's Suite By invitation only. |
| 7:15am - 8:45am | Student Breakfast Reception Location: Vue North |
| 7:45am - 8:45am | Retired Members Coffee Hour Location: Vue East |
| 8:00am - 9:30am | Poster Session Location: Regency C |
| 8:00am - 8:00pm | Nursing Mother's Room Location: Pere Marquette See the registration desk for the key. |
| 8:30am - 6:00pm | Exhibit Hall is Open Location: Executive Ballroom |
| 8:30am - 6:00pm | Registration Desk is Open Location: Executive Ballroom |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Quotation and Reference Location: Lakeshore AB |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Global Circulations Location: Milwaukee |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Pay Attention! Location: Regency A |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | The Other Cadence: Plagal Mechanisms in Historical and Contemporary Practice Location: Regency D |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm | Theorizing Black Music: Aesthetics, Sociality, Politics, Method Location: Crystal Graduate Student Workshop led by Marc Hannaford. By invitation only. |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm | Eye Training for Signed Music Analysis Location: Manager's Suite Graduate Student Workshop led by Anabel Maler. By invitation only. |
| 9:00am - 12:15pm | Celebrating Queer Ear: Reflecting, Inviting In, and Looking Forward Location: Regency B Sponsored by the Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues. |
| 10:00am - 11:15am | Coffee Break Location: Executive Ballroom |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm | Jazz Harmony and Tonality Location: Lakeshore AB |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm | Time and Tonality in Music Since 1950 Location: Milwaukee |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm | Considering Country Music Location: Regency A |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm | Revisiting Formalism Location: Regency D |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Mathematics of Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore AB |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Committee on Feminist Issues & Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch Location: Lakeshore C |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Musical Theater Interest Group Meeting Location: Milwaukee |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency A |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Analysis of World Musics & History of Theory Interest Groups Meeting Location: Regency B |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Committee on Disability & Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch Location: Regency C |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency D |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | CV Review Location: Vue East |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | CV Review Waiting Room Location: Vue North |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm | Canons Old and New Location: Lakeshore AB |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm | Pastoral and Nature Topics Location: Milwaukee |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm | Bodies in Motion Location: Regency A |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm | Groove is in the Heart Location: Regency B |
| 2:15pm - 5:30pm | “For Me, Music Has No Boundaries”: Analytical Perspectives on the Music of Unsuk Chin Location: Regency D |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Pitch-Class, Positional, and Pantuvarali Spaces Location: Lakeshore AB |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm | New and Hybrid Pop Forms Location: Milwaukee |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Alternative Formal Constructions Location: Regency A |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Centering Boccherini from the Periphery: Reassessing Form, Style, and Method in Eighteenth-Century Music Location: Regency B |
| 4:30pm - 6:30pm | American Brahms Society Reception Location: Crystal |
| 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Prospective Graduate Student Fair Location: Regency C |
| 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Musical Theory Pedagogy Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore AB |
| 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Milwaukee |
| 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Improvisation, Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries, & Film & Multimedia Joint Interest Groups Meeting Location: Regency A |
| 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency B |
| 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency D |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm | University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Reception Location: Manager's Suite |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Florida State University Reception Location: Regency C |
| 8:00pm - 11:59pm | you know you want to: karaoke night Location: Vue North |