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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12:00am - 12:30am10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency
7:15am - 8:45amSMT Retired Members Breakfast Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
7:15am - 8:45amSMT Student Breakfast Reception Location: Northwoods
7:45am - 8:45amAMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council Location: Lake Minnetonka
8:00am - 9:45amJoint Poster Session Location: Nicollet Ballroom A
8:00am - 10:00amRewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian vaudeville Location: Minnehaha
8:30am - 10:30amHistory of Theory II Location: Mirage
9:00am - 10:30amForm I Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
9:00am - 10:30amLiminal and Supernatural Topics Location: Lake Bemidji
9:00am - 10:30amMusic and Games Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
9:00am - 10:30am“The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00am - 10:30am200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025 Location: Great Lakes B
9:00am - 10:30amListening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture Location: Lake Superior A
9:00am - 10:30amMusicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology Location: Great Lakes A
9:00am - 10:30amRavel at 150: Enduring Insights and New Initiatives Location: Regency
9:00am - 10:30amFrench Court Musics in the 17th and 18th Centuries Location: Lake Superior B
9:00am - 10:30amGendering Asian Musical Instruments and Forms Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
9:00am - 10:30amHip-Hop Identities: Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Nationality Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:00am - 10:30amIn Fashion: Musical Women in the Long 18th Century Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
9:00am - 10:30amMedieval and Early Modern Chant Traditions Location: Great Lakes C
9:00am - 10:30amMusic, Sexual Performance, and Ethno-Porn Location: Lakeshore C
9:00am - 10:30amSilence and Sound in Urban Environments Location: Lake Minnetonka
9:00am - 10:30amSounding Disability Location: Lakeshore B
9:00am - 10:30amSoundtrack Semantics Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am - 10:30amTransatlantic Contrafacta: Musical Circulations in Colonial Mexico/New Spain and Territorial New Mexico Location: Northstar Ballroom B
9:00am - 10:30amWriting about Music Otherwise Location: Northstar Ballroom A
9:00am - 12:00pmSMT Graduate Student Workshop: Analyzing Antiphony: Theorizing Music-Text Relations for the Digital Episteme Location: St. Croix
9:00am - 12:00pmSMT Graduate Student Workshop: Hearing Technologies Location: Lake Harriet
9:30am - 4:00pmContemporary Issues in Music & Copyright Law: A CLE Special Session Location: Skyway A-B
10:15am - 12:15pmPolitics and Representations of Identity in Music Location: Minnehaha
10:45am - 12:00pmCoffee 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.
10:45am - 12:15pmAnalysis of Popular Music II Location: Lake Bemidji
10:45am - 12:15pmBraille and Beyond: Making Music Theory Accessible through Inclusive Design Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
10:45am - 12:15pmMemory, Affect, and Attention Location: Lakeshore C
10:45am - 12:15pmAmerican Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
10:45am - 12:15pmChanging the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmEmerging Directions in Music Theory Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am - 12:15pmForm, Voice, and Canonicity: Taking Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Seriously Location: Great Lakes A
10:45am - 12:15pmIntegrating Disciplinary Silos in Our Teaching Location: Northstar Ballroom A
10:45am - 12:15pmReich at 89 Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
10:45am - 12:15pmDefining Femininity and Female Power through Music Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am - 12:15pmIn the Shadow of the Holocaust Location: Lake Superior A
10:45am - 12:15pmInstrumental and Sonic Masculinities Location: Regency
10:45am - 12:15pmKeyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay Location: Lakeshore B
10:45am - 12:15pmChinese and Chinese-American Operatics Location: Great Lakes B
10:45am - 12:15pmMemory and Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Music Location: Great Lakes C
10:45am - 12:15pmSonic Redface Location: Lake Superior B
10:45am - 12:15pmThe Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
10:45am - 12:15pmWhy Worcester? Location: Northstar Ballroom B
10:45am - 12:45pmBlack American Composers and Coded Meanings Location: Mirage
10:45am - 12:45pmPsychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Music of Troubled Minds Location: Lake Minnetonka
11:00am - 12:00pmProject Spectrum Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom
11:00am - 12:30pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 2 Location: Exhibit Hall
12:30pm - 1:30pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1 Location: Executive Boardroom
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS/MLA RISM Committee Meeting Location: Cedar Lake
12:30pm - 2:00pmFellowship and Scholarship Opportunities at the University of Leuven (Belgium) Location: Great Lakes C
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Committee on Disability and Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch Location: Lake Nokomis
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Committee on Feminist Issues and Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch Location: Lake Harriet
12:30pm - 2:00pmSociety for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting Location: Northstar Ballroom B
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS MDSG Business Meeting with Short Papers, 2025: New Directions in Choreomusicology Location: Lake Superior A
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Music and Marxism Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
12:30pm - 2:00pmBrown Bag Lunch - An AMS Childhood and Youth Study Group Social Location: Lakeshore A
12:30pm - 2:00pmCelebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Superior B
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Improvisation & Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Lakeshore B
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusic of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture Location: Minnehaha
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusic, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
12:30pm - 2:00pmNew Work in LGBTQ Music Studies Location: Great Lakes B
12:30pm - 2:30pmMozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting Location: Northstar Ballroom A
1:00pm - 2:00pmKnitting Circle Location: St. Croix
1:00pm - 3:00pmSMT CV Review Session Location: Northwoods
1:00pm - 3:00pmSMT CV Review Session Waiting Room Location: Northwoods
2:15pm - 3:45pmAspects of Sound, Silence and Meditation in the Keyboard Music of Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996) Location: Regency
2:15pm - 3:45pmSong Form Location: Lakeshore C
2:15pm - 3:45pmTechniques and Technologies Location: Lake Bemidji
2:15pm - 3:45pm(Re)sounding Europe: Borders, Boundaries, Belonging Location: Great Lakes B
2:15pm - 3:45pmConstructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022) Location: Mirage
2:15pm - 3:45pmNew Horizons with Historical Notations Location: Northstar Ballroom B
2:15pm - 3:45pmNon-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree Location: Lake Superior A
2:15pm - 3:45pmSearching for "lo inaudito" in the Sound Archive Location: Great Lakes A
2:15pm - 3:45pmSocio-technical Histories of Digital Music Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pmSymbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmMaking Use of Jazz on Screen Location: Lake Minnetonka
2:15pm - 3:45pmCapturing Music: Notational Privilege and Practice Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm - 3:45pmOperatic Cultures of the 17th and 18th Centuries Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
2:15pm - 3:45pmSacred Music and the Performance of Power Location: Lakeshore B
2:15pm - 3:45pmSinging Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
2:15pm - 3:45pmStructure and Effect in Beethoven Location: Great Lakes C
2:15pm - 3:45pmTransatlantic Musical Cultures Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm - 4:15pmFemininity and Female Archetypes Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm - 5:30pmDon't Wake the Balrog! Navigating Copyright Issues in Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
2:15pm - 5:30pmTeaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm - 5:30pmAnalysis of Vocal Music Location: Mirage
4:00pm - 5:30pmCelebrating Scandinavian and Somali Music with the Nordstär Ensemble Location: Northstar Ballroom A
4:00pm - 5:30pmEast and West Location: Regency
4:00pm - 5:30pmForm in Popular Music Location: Lake Bemidji
4:00pm - 5:30pm“Crepi il lupo”: Critiquing Labor, Class, and DEIA in the Early Careers of Opera Singers Location: Great Lakes C
4:00pm - 5:30pmEditing Musicology and Theory Journals: How Can We Improve the System Together? Location: Lakeshore B
4:00pm - 5:30pmCity Soundscapes Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
4:00pm - 5:30pmJazz Philosophies and Perspectives Location: Lake Minnetonka
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic in the Early Modern Luso-Hispanic World Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
4:00pm - 5:30pmPerspectives on 19th-Century Sacred Music Location: Lakeshore C
4:00pm - 5:30pmRace, Nation, and Identity Location: Lake Superior A
4:00pm - 5:30pmSoviet Legacies Location: Great Lakes B
4:00pm - 5:30pmStorytelling Through Dance Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 5:30pmEmbodiment and Musical Gendering Location: Lakeshore A
4:00pm - 5:30pmStructure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music Location: Great Lakes A
4:00pm - 5:30pmTechnology, Timbre, and Trans Identities Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm - 6:00pmGenerative AI and New Frontiers in Musicology Location: Lake Superior B
4:30pm - 6:30pmTranscultural Historical Musicology Location: Minnehaha
5:45pm - 6:45pmProspective Graduate Student Fair Location: Nicollet Ballroom B-C
5:45pm - 7:45pmUniversity of Kansas School of Music Reception Location: Cedar Lake
6:00pm - 7:30pmTufts Friends and Alumni Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm - 8:00pmRIPM and RILM Reception Location: Lake Harriet
6:00pm - 8:00pmUniversity of Cincinnati CCM Reception Location: Skyway A-B
6:15pm - 8:15pmRice University Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
6:30pm - 8:30pmFlorida State University Musicology and Music Theory Joint Reception Location: St. Croix
6:30pm - 8:30pmFriends of Stony Brook Location: Lake Superior B
6:30pm - 8:30pmW. W. Norton Reception Location: Lake Superior A
6:45pm - 7:45pmAMS Explore: Debrief Location: Executive Boardroom
6:45pm - 7:45pmJoint Student Reception Location: Northwoods
7:00pm - 8:30pmTaken in Stride: The Mundanity of Ambulation Location: Music Box Theatre
7:00pm - 8:30pmSMT Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
7:00pm - 8:30pmSMT Composition Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency
7:00pm - 8:30pmSatie is Dead, Long Live Satie Location: Mirage
7:00pm - 9:00pmNew York University Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
7:00pm - 9:00pmUniversity of Illinois Reception Location: Lakeshore C
7:00pm - 9:15pmDear Lara (film screening) Lara St. John1 , Patrick Hamm2
1: N/A;
2: N/A
Location: Lakeshore A
7:30pm - 9:30pmAMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
7:30pm - 9:30pmBirds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the “Human” of “More-than-Human Musicking” (Roundtable and ESG Business Meeting) Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm - 10:00pmBrandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00pm - 11:00pmColumbia University Reception Location: Lake Harriet
9:00pm - 11:00pmSociety for American Music Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
9:00pm - 11:00pmUniversity of Chicago Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:30pm - 11:30pmCase Western Reserve University Reception Location: Skyway A-B
9:30pm - 11:30pmCUNY Graduate Center Reception Location: Lake Superior A
9:30pm - 11:30pmNot Another Cocktail Party! (An AMS-SMT Dance Party) Location: Regency
9:30pm - 11:30pmSociety for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of North Texas Reception Location: Lake Superior B
9:30pm - 11:30pmVoices and Viols Jam Location: Lake Minnetonka