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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 Ellen Shaw An Analysis of Joni Mitchell’s Vocal Evolution Rebecca Moranis Evolving slash harmony in Joni Mitchell’s early piano-based songs Megan Lyons, Peter Kaminsky
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 Marc Applebaum’s Darmstadt Kindergarten Drake Edward Eshleman How Sign Language Analyzes Musical Form Anabel Maler Dissonant Depictions: Topics and the Troping of Autism Tiffany Ta
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 Calder Hannan Analyzing Groove Embodiment in Erykah Badu’s “On & On” Kaylene Chan “Rhythmic Venom” or Comfortable Groove? On Microtiming in Colombian Currulao Lina Tabak
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 Ellen Bakulina Space Forms and Listening Strategies in Björk’s Sonic Utopia John H. Warren Lost and Found Keys, or First Theme Tonal Shifts in Post-Classical Sonata Form Expositions Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat
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 Organizer(s): Lyn Ellen Burkett, Jeffrey Perry, Amy Carr-Richardson, Mark Richardson, Evan Jones Chair(s): Lyn Ellen Burkett, Jeffrey Perry, Amy Carr-Richardson, Mark Richardson Presentations of the Symposium Practicing Nimble Pedagogy Lyn Ellen Burkett Musical Ensembles and Disaster Pedagogy Amy Carr-Richardson Faculty Governance in the Face of Natural Disasters Jeffrey Perry Music Theory as "Home Room" Mark D. Richardson Trauma, Instructional Response, and Institutional Memory Evan Jones
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 "The Most Distinctive Feature:" Harmonic Function within The Sacred Harp Lily Marshae Hammond The Prominent Dominant: Representing Function in the Roman Numeral Analysis of Tritone Substitutions Jessica Hunt Beyond the Classical Canon: A Neo-Dualist Approach to Harmonic Function for Broader Tonal Contexts Gabriel Venegas, Gabriel Navia
10:45am - 12:15pm	Expression in Vocal Music II Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair: Emily Garlen Milius Celebration and Self-Empowerment in Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” Catrina S. Kim Make-Believe Becomes Material-Reality: Analyzing the Musical Persona of Anna Indiana Gerardo Lopez Cadential Expression of Tonalities in Cavalli’s Il Giasone Vlad Praskurnin
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 Chair(s): Dale Chapman Presenter(s): Amy Stillman, Patrick Warfield, Alexander Dean, Pamela Whitcomb
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session Two: Workshop Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F Chair(s): Dale Chapman Presenter(s): Amy Stillman, Patrick Warfield, Alexander Dean, Pamela Whitcomb

Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025

9:00am
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10:30am

Cinematic Sound, Identity, and Memory: Theorizing the Audience in Film Music Analysis
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

Organizer(s): Táhirih Motazedian

Chair(s): Frank Lehman

Presentations of the Symposium

Rebooting a Film, Rebooting its Music, and the Nostalgia Factor

Táhirih Motazedian

Who is Scored to Save the World? Topics, Tropes, and Musical Representations of Superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018-2024)

Janet Bourne

When a Song Becomes an Anthem, a Person Becomes a Crowd

Juan Chattah

10:45am
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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

David Hier

Playing with the Net Down: Formalism and Dialectics in Helmut Lachenmann’s Music and Thought

Zachary Bernstein

Ferneyhough's Modernist Fragments

Anna Rose Nelson