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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2:15pm History of Theory I Location: Mirage Chair: Deborah Ellen Burton , Boston University
Reimagining Marches Harmoniques: Maurice Ravel’s Innovative Transformation of Historical Techniques
Li Ai
Reviving Politics, Ritualizing Music - The Rehabilitation of Xiong Penglai within the History of Chinese Music Theory
MingJun X Wilson
The Silence of the Archive: Challenges in the Global History of Portuguese Music Theory, 1500–1755
Juan Patricio Saenz
4:00pm 20th-Century Ideas I Location: Mirage Chair: Daphne Leong , University of Colorado Boulder
Luciano Berio’s Multidimensional Concept of Harmony
Christoph Neidhöfer
Theorizing Benjamin Britten’s “Twelve-Note Thinking”
Aidan McGartland
(Dis)unity of Musical Space in the Late Works of György Ligeti
Clifton Callender
7:15pm SMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Mirage
8:30am History of Theory II Location: Mirage Chair: Nathan Martin , University of Michigan
Partimento and Harmony in Spain: Félix Máximo López’s Reglas Generales
Bryan Espinosa
Reimagining Harmonic Function without the Harmonieschritte : Otakar Šín and Czech Music Theory in the Twentieth Century.
Kája Lill
Karg-Elert vs. Grabner: conflicting harmony pedagogies at the Leipzig Conservatory, and what they reveal about our understanding of harmonic function
David Alexander Byrne
Theorizing Rhythm in the Sublunary World: Al-Fārābī and the Historicization of the Universalizing Impulse of Music Theory
Giulia Accornero
10:45am Black American Composers and Coded Meanings Location: Mirage Chair: Stephanie Doktor , Temple University
Julia Perry's Metamodernist Drift
Ryan Dohoney
Minimalism, Repetition, and Irreverence in the Music of Julius Eastman
Lauren Shepherd
Florence Price's Epic Endings
Kaitlyn Clawson-Cannestra
Florence Price’s “Monologue for the Working Class” and the Sounds of Solidarity
Alexis Nickole Lowder
2:15pm Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022) Location: Mirage
Organizer(s): Andrew Pau , Sylvie Tran , Christa Cole
Chair(s): Jan Miyake
Discussant(s): n/a n/a
Presentations of the Symposium
"Here We Have Our Place": The Musical Construction of African Identity in Omar
Andrew Pau
Musical Representations of Assimilation and the Antebellum South in Omar
Sylvie Tran
The Role of the Chorus in Omar
Christa Cole
4:00pm Analysis of Vocal Music Location: Mirage Chair: Alexander Martin , Stetson University
Suspended Textures in Lili Boulanger's Songs
Stephen Rodgers
Chant Allusion in 1880-1920 French Art Songs
Matthew Allan Bilik
Machaut's Monophonic Lais
Justin Lavacek
7:00pm Satie is Dead, Long Live Satie Location: Mirage
Chair(s): Samuel Dorf , Megan Sarno
Discussant(s): Campbell Shiflett
Presenter(s): Jillian Rogers , Noel Verzosa
9:00am 18th Century Issues Location: Mirage Chair: Olga Sánchez Kisielewska
Three Melodies Walk Backwards Into a Bar: Enigmatic Music Notation in BWV 1087 and its Antecedents
Renée Barbre
Stravinsky's Reinvention of 18th-Century Schemas in the Neoclassical Period
Lucy Y. Liu
Hélène de Montgeroult’s “Accelerated” Etude after Haydn
W. Dean Sutcliffe
10:45am Harmony and Narrative in Film Music Location: Mirage Chair: Frank Lehman , Tufts University
Parallel Tritone Progressions in Film: Affekt and Voice Leading
Michael G. Ebie
Kiarostami and Kristeva: A Study of Abjection and Semiotics in the Film Taste of Cherry (1997)
Jane Allen, Saman Montaseri
Minding the Fantastical Gap at Crime Scenes in Batman Media
William Ayers
12:30pm SMT Work and Family Interest Group Meeting Location: Mirage
4:00pm K-Pop: Inside, Outside, New and Old Location: Mirage Chair: Jeongin Lee
“You make it feel me good": K-pop English and Gestalt Listening Across Borders
Jacob Reed
Korean Wind: A Trend Toward Tradition in Modern K-Pop?
Seth J Coluzzi
“You can call me SUGA, or Agust D, or Yoongi”: An Examination of K-pop Artist Min Yoongi's Vocal Personas
Natalie R. Hedberg
"Narratives of Modernization in Korean Pop Ballads from the 1990s and Early 2000s"
Mi Kyung Hwang
9:00am Analysis of Popular Music III Location: Mirage Chair: Brett Clement
Sus in the Sixties
Fernando Benadon
“Sometimes a Fantasy”: Billy Joel and the Concealed Lament in his “Soliloquy” for Solo Piano
John Charles Koslovsky
Songs without a chorus and other metal deviations, The riff integration and double rise in extreme metal music
Avinoam Foonberg
10:45am Intertextuality and Interpretation Location: Mirage Chair: Ben Baker , Eastman School of Music
Genre topics, intertextuality, and narrative in Yoasobi’s “Idol”
Noriko Manabe
Spiritual Transformations in Two Songs by Sunn O)))
Guy Capuzzo
Thelonious Monk’s Wrong (…but Right) Notes
Anna Peloso
