Conference Agenda

Session Overview

Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
12:00am - 12:30am	10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency
7:15am - 8:45am	SMT Retired Members Breakfast Reception Location: Lake Nokomis		SMT Student Breakfast Reception Location: Northwoods
7:45am - 8:45am	AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council Location: Lake Minnetonka Closed meeting.
8:00am - 9:45am	Joint Poster Session Location: Nicollet Ballroom A
8:00am - 10:00am	Rewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian vaudeville Location: Minnehaha
8:30am - 10:30am	History of Theory II Location: Mirage
9:00am - 10:30am	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 - 12:00pm	SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Analyzing Antiphony: Theorizing Music-Text Relations for the Digital Episteme Location: St. Croix By invitation only.		SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Hearing Technologies Location: Lake Harriet By invitation only.
9:30am - 4:00pm	Contemporary Issues in Music & Copyright Law: A CLE Special Session Location: Skyway A-B
10:15am - 12:15pm	Politics and Representations of Identity in Music Location: Minnehaha
10:45am - 12:00pm	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 - 12:15pm	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 - 12:45pm	Black American Composers and Coded Meanings Location: Mirage		Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Music of Troubled Minds Location: Lake Minnetonka
11:00am - 12:00pm	Project Spectrum Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.
11:00am - 12:30pm	AMS Board Meet & Greet 2 Location: Exhibit Hall
12:30pm - 1:30pm	AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1 Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pm	AMS/MLA RISM Committee Meeting Location: Cedar Lake Closed meeting.	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 - 2:30pm	Mozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting Location: Northstar Ballroom A
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Knitting Circle Location: St. Croix
1:00pm - 3:00pm	SMT CV Review Session Location: Northwoods		SMT CV Review Session Waiting Room Location: Northwoods
2:15pm - 3:45pm	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 - 4:15pm	Femininity and Female Archetypes Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm - 5:30pm	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 - 5:30pm	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 - 6:00pm	Generative AI and New Frontiers in Musicology Location: Lake Superior B
4:30pm - 6:30pm	Transcultural Historical Musicology Location: Minnehaha
5:45pm - 6:45pm	Prospective Graduate Student Fair Location: Nicollet Ballroom B-C
5:45pm - 7:45pm	University of Kansas School of Music Reception Location: Cedar Lake
6:00pm - 7:30pm	Tufts Friends and Alumni Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm - 8:00pm	RIPM and RILM Reception Location: Lake Harriet		University of Cincinnati CCM Reception Location: Skyway A-B
6:15pm - 8:15pm	Rice University Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
6:30pm - 8:30pm	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 - 7:45pm	AMS Explore: Debrief Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.		Joint Student Reception Location: Northwoods
7:00pm - 8:30pm	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 - 9:00pm	New York University Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B		University of Illinois Reception Location: Lakeshore C
7:00pm - 9:15pm	Dear Lara (film screening) Lara St. John¹, Patrick Hamm² 1: N/A; 2: N/A Location: Lakeshore A
7:30pm - 9:30pm	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 - 10:00pm	Brandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00pm - 11:00pm	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 - 11:30pm	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
9:30pm - 11:30pm	University of North Texas Reception Location: Lake Superior B	Voices and Viols Jam Location: Lake Minnetonka