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 10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency
7:15am SMT Retired Members Breakfast Reception Location: Lake Nokomis SMT Student Breakfast Reception Location: Northwoods
7:45am AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council Location: Lake Minnetonka
8:00am Joint Poster Session Location: Nicollet Ballroom A
8:00am Rewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian vaudeville Location: Minnehaha
8:30am History of Theory II Location: Mirage
9:00am Form I Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Liminal and Supernatural Topics Location: Lake Bemidji Music and Games Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B “The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025 Location: Great Lakes B Listening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture Location: Lake Superior A Musicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology Location: Great Lakes A Ravel at 150: Enduring Insights and New Initiatives Location: Regency
French Court Musics in the 17th and 18th Centuries Location: Lake Superior B Gendering Asian Musical Instruments and Forms Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Hip-Hop Identities: Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Nationality Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D In Fashion: Musical Women in the Long 18th Century Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Medieval and Early Modern Chant Traditions Location: Great Lakes C Music, Sexual Performance, and Ethno-Porn Location: Lakeshore C Silence and Sound in Urban Environments Location: Lake Minnetonka Sounding Disability Location: Lakeshore B
Soundtrack Semantics Location: Lakeshore A Transatlantic Contrafacta: Musical Circulations in Colonial Mexico/New Spain and Territorial New Mexico Location: Northstar Ballroom B Writing about Music Otherwise Location: Northstar Ballroom A
9:00am SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Analyzing Antiphony: Theorizing Music-Text Relations for the Digital Episteme Location: St. Croix SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Hearing Technologies Location: Lake Harriet
9:30am Contemporary Issues in Music & Copyright Law: A CLE Special Session Location: Skyway A-B
10:15am Politics and Representations of Identity in Music Location: Minnehaha
10:45am 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.
10:45am Analysis of Popular Music II Location: Lake Bemidji Braille and Beyond: Making Music Theory Accessible through Inclusive Design Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Memory, Affect, and Attention Location: Lakeshore C American Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Changing the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Emerging Directions in Music Theory Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Form, Voice, and Canonicity: Taking Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Seriously Location: Great Lakes A Integrating Disciplinary Silos in Our Teaching Location: Northstar Ballroom A
Reich at 89 Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Defining Femininity and Female Power through Music Location: Lakeshore A In the Shadow of the Holocaust Location: Lake Superior A Instrumental and Sonic Masculinities Location: Regency
Keyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay Location: Lakeshore B Chinese and Chinese-American Operatics Location: Great Lakes B Memory and Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Music Location: Great Lakes C Sonic Redface Location: Lake Superior B
The Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Why Worcester? Location: Northstar Ballroom B
10:45am Black American Composers and Coded Meanings Location: Mirage Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Music of Troubled Minds Location: Lake Minnetonka
11:00am Project Spectrum Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom
11:00am AMS Board Meet & Greet 2 Location: Exhibit Hall
12:30pm AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1 Location: Executive Boardroom
12:30pm AMS/MLA RISM Committee Meeting Location: Cedar Lake Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities at the University of Leuven (Belgium) Location: Great Lakes C SMT Committee on Disability and Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch Location: Lake Nokomis SMT Committee on Feminist Issues and Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch Location: Lake Harriet
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B AMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting Location: Northstar Ballroom B AMS MDSG Business Meeting with Short Papers, 2025: New Directions in Choreomusicology Location: Lake Superior A AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Brown Bag Lunch - An AMS Childhood and Youth Study Group Social Location: Lakeshore A Celebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D SMT Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Superior B SMT Improvisation & Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Lakeshore B
SMT Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C SMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G SMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Music of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture Location: Minnehaha Music, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I New Work in LGBTQ Music Studies Location: Great Lakes B
12:30pm Mozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting Location: Northstar Ballroom A
1:00pm Knitting Circle Location: St. Croix
1:00pm SMT CV Review Session Location: Northwoods SMT CV Review Session Waiting Room Location: Northwoods
2:15pm Aspects of Sound, Silence and Meditation in the Keyboard Music of Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996) Location: Regency Song Form Location: Lakeshore C Techniques and Technologies Location: Lake Bemidji (Re)sounding Europe: Borders, Boundaries, Belonging Location: Great Lakes B
Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022) Location: Mirage New Horizons with Historical Notations Location: Northstar Ballroom B Non-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree Location: Lake Superior A Searching for "lo inaudito" in the Sound Archive Location: Great Lakes A
Socio-technical Histories of Digital Music Location: Lake Superior B Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G Making Use of Jazz on Screen Location: Lake Minnetonka Capturing Music: Notational Privilege and Practice Location: Lakeshore A
Operatic Cultures of the 17th and 18th Centuries Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Sacred Music and the Performance of Power Location: Lakeshore B Singing Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Structure and Effect in Beethoven Location: Great Lakes C
Transatlantic Musical Cultures Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm Femininity and Female Archetypes Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm Don't Wake the Balrog! Navigating Copyright Issues in Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Teaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm Analysis of Vocal Music Location: Mirage Celebrating Scandinavian and Somali Music with the Nordstär Ensemble Location: Northstar Ballroom A East and West Location: Regency Form in Popular Music Location: Lake Bemidji
“Crepi il lupo”: Critiquing Labor, Class, and DEIA in the Early Careers of Opera Singers Location: Great Lakes C Editing Musicology and Theory Journals: How Can We Improve the System Together? Location: Lakeshore B City Soundscapes Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Jazz Philosophies and Perspectives Location: Lake Minnetonka
Music in the Early Modern Luso-Hispanic World Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I Perspectives on 19th-Century Sacred Music Location: Lakeshore C Race, Nation, and Identity Location: Lake Superior A Soviet Legacies Location: Great Lakes B
Storytelling Through Dance Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Embodiment and Musical Gendering Location: Lakeshore A Structure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music Location: Great Lakes A Technology, Timbre, and Trans Identities Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm Generative AI and New Frontiers in Musicology Location: Lake Superior B
4:30pm Transcultural Historical Musicology Location: Minnehaha
5:45pm Prospective Graduate Student Fair Location: Nicollet Ballroom B-C
5:45pm University of Kansas School of Music Reception Location: Cedar Lake
6:00pm Tufts Friends and Alumni Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm RIPM and RILM Reception Location: Lake Harriet University of Cincinnati CCM Reception Location: Skyway A-B
6:15pm Rice University Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
6:30pm Florida State University Musicology and Music Theory Joint Reception Location: St. Croix Friends of Stony Brook Location: Lake Superior B W. W. Norton Reception Location: Lake Superior A
6:45pm AMS Explore: Debrief Location: Executive Boardroom Joint Student Reception Location: Northwoods
7:00pm Taken in Stride: The Mundanity of Ambulation Location: Music Box Theatre SMT Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F SMT Composition Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency Satie is Dead, Long Live Satie Location: Mirage
7:00pm New York University Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B University of Illinois Reception Location: Lakeshore C
7:00pm Dear Lara (film screening) Lara St. John1 , Patrick Hamm2
1: N/A;
2: N/A
Location: Lakeshore A
7:30pm AMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji Birds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the “Human” of “More-than-Human Musicking” (Roundtable and ESG Business Meeting) Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm Brandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00pm Columbia University Reception Location: Lake Harriet Society for American Music Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I University of Chicago Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:30pm Case Western Reserve University Reception Location: Skyway A-B CUNY Graduate Center Reception Location: Lake Superior A Not Another Cocktail Party! (An AMS-SMT Dance Party) Location: Regency Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
University of North Texas Reception Location: Lake Superior B Voices and Viols Jam Location: Lake Minnetonka
