Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Session Overview |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | ||||
| 7:30am - 12:00pm |
AMS Board Meeting Location: Skyway A-B Closed meeting. |
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| 8:00am - 12:00pm |
Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Regency |
SMT Board Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Encoding Conflict in Music Location: Remote Session Chair: Oksana Nesterenko “Whatever small part we could do”: Community and Grassroots Leadership in Benefit Concerts for Ukraine Sketches of "Stalingrad": The Genesis of Prokofiev’s Seventh Piano Sonata |
Exploring Regional and Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century Location: Remote Session Chair: Chris Batterman Cháirez, University of California, Berkeley Traditional Âşık/Alevi Musicians as Cultural Critics in Urban Life of Modern Turkey, 1960-1980 Reconfiguring Bel Canto: Operatic Voice, Cultural Negotiation, and Performance Economies in Postcolonial Lagos. 'Into your Sussex quietness I came': rediscovering the orchestral music of Avril Coleridge-Taylor |
A Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG Lecture) Location: Remote Session |
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| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
"Whose Brahms?" Reception and Uses of Nineteenth-Century Music Up to the Present Day Location: Lakeshore C |
SMT Peer Learning Program: A Microcosm of Rhythm: Theorizing and Analyzing Groove-Based Music Location: Lake Harriet |
SMT Peer Learning Program: Shark!: A Dive into Film Music Analysis Location: St. Croix |
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| 9:00am - 1:00pm |
France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Lakeshore A |
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| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Analysis of Popular Music I Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Megan Lavengood, George Mason University Hearing Alternative R&B in Frank Ocean's "Self Control" Analyzing the Yodel in Popular Music Contrasting Verses in Indian Popular Music |
Expression in Vocal Music I Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Chair: Chelsea Burns, University of Texas at Austin “Be Bimbos, Ladies!” Vocality, Drag, and the Chappell Roan Persona Non-Normativity as Queer Expression in Reneé Rapp’s Snow Angel (2023) "Let the Vagina Have A Monologue": Exploring Persona in Janelle Monáe's Music |
Joni Mitchell Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Nancy Murphy, University of Michigan “Refuge of the Roads”: Portrayals of Musical Restlessness in Joni Mitchell’s Hejira An Analysis of Joni Mitchell’s Vocal Evolution Evolving slash harmony in Joni Mitchell’s early piano-based songs |
Living in the Longer Now: Indigenous Music/Dance as History (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture) Location: Remote Session Chair: Julie Emelyn Cumming, McGill University Presenter: Beverley Diamond, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Meter Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Chair: John Paul Ito, Carnegie Mellon University Temporal Contour & Metric Dissonance in Thomas Adès’ Piano Quintet Texture and Meter in Funk Music The Waltz Topic and 5/4 Time in Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique |
Musical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition Location: Remote Session Chair: D Linda Pearse, Mount Allison University / McGill University Concerts, Commerce, and Colonialisation: Eighteenth-century London’s Concert Life and the Slave Trade On idiom and the whiteness of free improvisation Views from the Wienerwald and the Making of Vienna as Musikstadt around 1900 |
Pedagogy Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Timothy K Chenette, Utah State University The Commodification of the Music Theory and Aural Skills Core Curriculum Representation in Music Theory Pedagogy Authorship Teaching Timbre, Teaching Games: Video Game Music as a Pedagogical Asset |
AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis Location: Remote Session |
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| Roundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship Location: Remote Session |
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| 11:00am - 1:00pm |
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting Location: Cedar Lake Closed meeting. |
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| 11:45am - 12:30pm |
AMS Student Grantees Meet & Greet Location: Lake Nokomis By invitation only. |
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| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Joint New Attendee Reception Location: Northwoods |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting. |
SMT Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Buddy Program Meet-up Location: Lake Harriet |
SMT Conference Guides Location: Skyway A-B |
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| 1:15pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Explore: Orientation Location: Lake Nokomis Closed meeting. |
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| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Adapting Musical Performance for the Screen Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Paul Sommerfeld Discussant: Julie Hubbert "Filming a Stage Performance is Not a Form of Art": Opera’s Divided Screen Cultures "I Detest Opera Done on the Small Screen": Maria Callas on Television Paradise as Paradox: The Fauré Requiem in American Television |
African Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers Location: Regency |
Beyond the Score Location: Lakeshore C Chair: Sarah Iker Against Muteness but Beyond Sound: Republican Shanghai’s Forgotten Gestural Musicology Tactile Acousmatic: Between Braille Sounds and the Vernacular of Flesh (Photo)Graphic Scores |
Disability in Musical Topics and Form Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Shersten Johnson, University of St. Thomas “Silent Hearing” in Mark Applebaum’s Darmstadt Kindergarten How Sign Language Analyzes Musical Form Dissonant Depictions: Topics and the Troping of Autism |
| History of Theory I Location: Mirage Chair: Deborah Burton, Boston University Reviving Politics, Ritualizing Music - The Rehabilitation of Xiong Penglai within the History of Chinese Music Theory The Silence of the Archive: Challenges in the Global History of Portuguese Music Theory, 1500–1755 Reimagining Marches Harmoniques: Maurice Ravel’s Innovative Transformation of Historical Techniques |
Innovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Daniel Bennett Page At the Intersection of Oïl and Oc: What Dialects Reveal About ‘Hybrid’ Ars antiqua Motets Cuckoldry and Compositional Innovation in a Motet on St Lawrence "Prince of Some Versatility": Symbolic Elements to Carlo Gesualdo’s Marian Worship in Sacrae Cantiones |
Jewish Musical Theater and Song Location: Northstar Ballroom A Chair: Ronit Seter "A First-Class Yiddisha Tone": Investigating the Jewish Novelty Songs of Irving Berlin ‘Synagogue on stage! God, how far art is from reality!’: Valentina Serova, Jewry, and opera in late imperial Russia “I belong in…”: Fiddler on the Roof and Cold War-Era Zionism |
Manuscript Histories Location: Great Lakes A Chair: Melanie Batoff Mendicants Making Music in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Crete: a Manuscript and the Case for Microhistory Newly Discovered Polyphony from the Winchester Troper Mons superat saltus and Hildegard's Song Texts |
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| Music and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Brad Cawyer How Broadway Got Its “Belt”: Ethel Merman, Belting, and Cold War American Identity Hungary’s Rajkó Ensemble at home abroad: Socialist Cultural Diplomacy or Capitalist Commodity? Nuclear anxiety in the reception of Marcel Landowski’s opera Le Fou (1956) |
Music Theory and Spirituality Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Laura Emmery, Emory University The Rhythmicon and Henry Cowell’s Theosophical Neoplatonism "It's About Time": George Russell and Fourth Way Metaphysics Seeing (Heavenly) Harmony: Music-Theoretical Mythmaking in Mrs. F. J. Hughes’s Harmonies of Tones and Colours Developed by Evolution (1883) |
Natural Landscapes and Sound Ecologies Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Dave Wilson Singing a Song of Survival: The Role of Recent Sound Art Installations in Promoting Empathetic Attunement to Avian-Human Sound Ecologies and Pathologies Wild Rose: Environmental ideology and acoustic community in New York's Hudson Valley in the early twentieth century Mevlevi Alphabetics c. 1800: Musicology as Media Ecology in the Work of Abdülbaki Nasır Dede |
Rock Narratives Location: Lake Superior B Chair: Jack Sheinbaum Sounding the Rural: Productions of Space and Class in American Rock Music A Hero and a Queen: Narratives of Time Travel and Queerness in “Bohemian Rhapsody” Exploring the Dark Side of ABBA: The "Mini-Musical" The Girl with the Golden Hair (1977) |
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| Between Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes Location: Minnehaha |
Developing a Student-Centered Approach to Classroom Learning Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D |
Hybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80 Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Presentations of the Symposium A/semanticity and plastic constraint: Anthony Braxton’s new notations Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music as Meta-tradition |
Musical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium Aztec Dance Spaces: Healing and the Ethics of Scholarship in a Fraught Moment Imagining Healing in New Mexico’s Experimental Feminist Sound Art Yo vine from “Just Across the Rio Grande”: The Texas Sweethearts, Intergenerational Migrant Trauma, and Intercultural Healing |
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| Opera as Worldmaking Location: Northstar Ballroom B Presentations of the Symposium Generating the Globe Through Abandoned Dido A New Musical Cosmography: Freedom, Nation, & Song in <The Travellers> (1806) Theater In and Of the Mind: The Resonant Worlds of Radio Opera |
Video Game Franchises and Musical Recontextualization: An Intergenerational Approach Location: Lake Superior A Presentations of the Symposium “Nice Song. Funny Too. Wrote It Yourself?”: Diegetic Musicking, Relationships, and “Artless Singing” in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (2024) Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory and the Memory of Melody The Transformation, Re-Negotiation, and Enclosure of Crush 40’s “Live & Learn” Across Sega, Paramount, and the Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise |
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| 3:15pm - 4:30pm |
Coffee Break Location: Exhibit Hall Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served. |
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| 3:15pm - 4:45pm |
AMS Board Meet & Greet 1 Location: Exhibit Hall |
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| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
20th-Century Ideas I Location: Mirage Chair: Daphne Leong, University of Colorado Boulder Luciano Berio’s Multidimensional Concept of Harmony Theorizing Benjamin Britten’s “Twelve-Note Thinking” (Dis)unity of Musical Space in the Late Works of György Ligeti |
Cultural Imaginings in Global Organology Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Chair: Ralph Whyte Discussant: LIDIA CHANG Reimagining Tango in China: Free Bass Accordion and the Marginalization of the Bandoneón Excavating Alzina’s Codiapi: Filipino Boat-lutes in the Colonial Visayas The Politics of Lizzo’s Sasha Flute |
Gender and Embodiment in Chopin Location: Regency Chair: Jennifer Ronyak, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz Discussant: Jeffrey Kallberg, University of Pennsylvania Chopin as Pierrot: Letters, Puppets, and the Theater of Queer Pianism Chopin, Delacroix, and Improvisational Auditory-Visual Timbre Kobiece kroki (Feminine Steps): Expressions of Gender and Voice in Chopin’s Mazurkas |
Groove Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Timothy Koozin, University of Houston A New Quantitative Approach to Headbanging at the Frontiers of Groove Analyzing Groove Embodiment in Erykah Badu’s “On & On” “Rhythmic Venom” or Comfortable Groove? On Microtiming in Colombian Currulao |
| Motets as Mediums of Power and Sovereignty Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Barbara Dietlinger, University of North Texas Political Power and Resistance in an Early Modern Motet Print: Defining the Holy Roman Empire in the Novus thesaurus musicus (1568) The motets of John Mundy: Humanism, crypto-Catholicism, and memory in late-Elizabethan England Sounding Sovereignty: Occasional Motets in the Early Modern Transition |
Music, Education, and Care Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Louis Epstein Music and a politics of care: Collaborative songwriting in US social service and community mental health settings “Not born to be a musician, but to be an excellent worker”: Class, Gender, and the Étude in the Early Nineteenth Century The Chipko Movement: Women, Environment, and Gendered Care in Northern India |
Opera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Chair: Harris Saunders Sound in New Light: Staging Magical Operas in Early-Nineteenth-Century Hamburg Curating the Past: Contemporary Stagings of Early Baroque Opera and the Challenge to the Work Concept Gian Francesco Malipiero's Tre commedie goldoniane (1926): Visions of Staging in Fascist Italy |
Sets and Solfège Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Paul Sherrill, University of Utah Uncovering Howard Hanson's Proto-Set Theory Pedagogy Families of set classes arising from a cellular automaton in mod-12 and other modular spaces Unified Solfège Equations |
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| Sound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games Location: Lake Superior A Chair: Kate Galloway Discussant: Dana Plank Ready Player One: Embodiment and Identity Performance in Multiplayer Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games The Aesthetics of Virtual and Physical Environments in Japanese BGM Memory and Nostalgia in the Sound Worlds of Video Game Demakes |
Theorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Chase Castle, University of Delaware White Mythologies in Messiaen “This is why we can’t have nice things:” White Feminism and the Cultural Value of Taylor Swift |
Beyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth Location: Northstar Ballroom B Presentations of the Symposium The “Crimes” of Frédéric Kalkbrenner: Celebrity Fraud and Parasocial Relationships Reputation, Myth, and Fiction in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of Salieri’s _Axur, re d’Ormus_ Beethoven’s Bust and Phrenology from 1812 to the Present |
New Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music Location: Minnehaha Presentations of the Symposium Putting His Story Back on the Record: Mike G. Lawrence’s Management of the Colonial Tavern as Canadian Jewish Music History “How Do We Share It With The Generations?”: Investigating Ruth Rubin’s Lecture-Recitals at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library “The Nationalists Wish We Didn’t Exist”: The Diasporist Songs of Geoff Berner |
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| Puccinian Endings, One Hundred Years On: Rotation, Focalization, and Climax in Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot Location: Great Lakes A Presentations of the Symposium Reconsidering Suor Angelica Focalizing Gianni Schicchi Climax Structure in Large-Scale: On the Ending of Puccini’s Turandot, Act 1 |
Sonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium “Oh Freedom”: Rememory and the Afterlives of Slavery through Collective Singing at Mt. Vernon Rocío Dúrcal: la Llorona española South Vietnamese Specters & More “Significant Ghosts”: The Voice of Khánh Ly Between Saigons |
Teaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Presentations of the Symposium Form in Electronic Dance Music: A Pedagogical Approach EDM as Timbre Learning Lab Teaching Rhythmic Theory Through Electronic Dance Music |
The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan Location: Lakeshore C Presentations of the Symposium “When Will You Return?”: The Voice(s) of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Voicing Modernity: Singsong Girls, Shidaiqu, and the Feminine Pulse of Old Shanghai Jazz Queens in Women’s Magazines: Negotiating Femininity in Occupied Japan |
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| The Prince of Porn: The Racialized Politics of Minneapolis's Music and Sex Culture During the 1980s (Critical Race Lecture) Location: Northstar Ballroom A |
Theorizing Popular Music in the Interregnum: Stylistic Shifts in an Era of Upheaval Location: Lake Superior B Presentations of the Symposium Timbre and Reconstructed Nostalgia in 2020s Popular Music Dissolving Limits; or, How Studio Production Fixes a Sustainability Problem Texture and the Political in Bon Iver’s Kanye-Influenced Music |
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| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
Iranian Musical Encounters and Meanings Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Armaghan Fakhraeirad Politics of (Dis)connection: Iranian Musicians, Social Media, and Diasporic Encounters From Silence to Sound: Iranian Women Musicking under Suppression and after Migration ‘I, too, was once a musician’: The double-marginalisation of Iranian Migrant Musicians in Canada Secularizing Social Identity Through Performing Khayyami |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Joint Interest Groups and Affiliates Fair Location: Great Lakes B-C |
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| 5:00pm - 6:15pm |
AMS Presidential Reception Location: Lake Nokomis By invitation only. |
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| 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
12-Step Recovery Meeting Location: St. Croix |
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| 6:30pm - 7:45pm |
Joint Welcome Reception Location: Nicollet Ballroom |
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
UNC Chapel Hill Reception Location: Lakeshore C |
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| 7:15pm - 8:45pm |
SMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Mirage |
SMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F |
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| 7:30pm - 9:30pm |
8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia Location: Lake Superior A Presentations of the Symposium Kawaii and Mukokuseki in Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal’s ‘Kimono Girls' Crushing Bit: Lo-Bit Techniques Beyond Chiptunes A Wild Topic Appeared! Pokémon’s Encounter Topic Pixelated Sound, Cinematic Style: Chiptune Tropes in a Game-less Game Movie. Dangerous 8-bit Waves in Nintendo Entertainment Systems JRPGS |
AMS Global East Asian Music Research Annual Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji |
Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Presentations of the Symposium Can a rehearsal be an archive? Ornette Coleman and the limits of theorising an errant practice Theorizing Similarity in Latvian Melodies and Ethnographic Marginalia “Cosmic Rhythm”: Music Theory and Non-Objective Painting |
Musical Explorations of Jewish Past(s) Location: Minnehaha Presentations of the Symposium More than “Mere Cantillation:” Joseph Levin Saalschütz’s Reception of Johann Nikolaus Forkel’s History of Hebrew Music The Bible is Here: On the Performance of Biblical-Themed Operas in British Mandate Palestine (1923–1927) From “Master-ess of the Harpsichord” to “Lute Mother of the Netherlands”: Gusta Goldschmidt, Resistance, and Postwar Reintegration in Historical Performance Practice \Musical Works on Trauma, Mourning, and Remembrance: October 7th and Seltenreich’s The Prisoner’s Dilemma |
| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Minnesota Party (University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St. Olaf College) Location: Lake Harriet |
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| 8:30pm - 11:59pm |
10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency |
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| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
Northwestern University Reception Location: Skyway A-B |
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