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 | |
| Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
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 |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
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 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 |
| 7:15pm - 8:45pm |
SMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Form I Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Christopher Segall, University of Cincinnati The Linking Function And The Two-Dimensional Sonata Form Space Forms and Listening Strategies in Björk’s Sonic Utopia Lost and Found Keys, or First Theme Tonal Shifts in Post-Classical Sonata Form Expositions |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Braille and Beyond: Making Music Theory Accessible through Inclusive Design Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Toby Rush, University of Dayton Chair: Dave Easley |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F |
| 2:15pm - 5:30pm |
Teaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Presentations of the Symposium Practicing Nimble Pedagogy Musical Ensembles and Disaster Pedagogy Faculty Governance in the Face of Natural Disasters Music Theory as "Home Room" Trauma, Instructional Response, and Institutional Memory |
| 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
SMT Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
New Approaches to Harmonic Function Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Kyle Hutchinson, Colgate University "The Most Distinctive Feature:" Harmonic Function within The Sacred Harp The Prominent Dominant: Representing Function in the Roman Numeral Analysis of Tritone Substitutions Beyond the Classical Canon: A Neo-Dualist Approach to Harmonic Function for Broader Tonal Contexts |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Expression in Vocal Music II Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Emily Garlen Milius, Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University Celebration and Self-Empowerment in Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” Make-Believe Becomes Material-Reality: Analyzing the Musical Persona of Anna Indiana Cadential Expression of Tonalities in Cavalli’s Il Giasone |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Timbre and Orchestration Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session One: Roundtable Discussion Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session Two: Workshop Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Cinematic Sound, Identity, and Memory: Theorizing the Audience in Film Music Analysis Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Presentations of the Symposium Rebooting a Film, Rebooting its Music, and the Nostalgia Factor Who is Scored to Save the World? Topics, Tropes, and Musical Representations of Superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018-2024) When a Song Becomes an Anthem, a Person Becomes a Crowd |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
20th Century Compositional Poetics Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Antares Boyle, Portland State University Space, Time, and Harmony in Max Reger’s ‘Morgen,’ op. 66/10 Playing with the Net Down: Formalism and Dialectics in Helmut Lachenmann’s Music and Thought Ferneyhough's Modernist Fragments |