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
9:00am Ravel at 150: Enduring Insights and New Initiatives Location: Regency
Chair(s): Michael Puri , Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Discussant(s): Steven Huebner
Presenter(s): Jennifer Beavers , Damian Blättler , Jessie Fillerup , Campbell Shiflett , Rachana Vajjhala
10:45am Instrumental and Sonic Masculinities Location: Regency Chair: Emanuele Senici , University of Rome La Sapienza
Manifesting the Black “Middlebrow” and Negotiating Sounded Masculinity: Pianists Don Shirley, Rachmaninoff, and Liberace
Pheaross Graham
“Semper Fi, Do or Die”: Hegemonic Masculinity in a Homosocial Musical
Zane Larson
Knob Interfaces, Masculinity, and the Politics of Control
Erik Broess
2:15pm Aspects of Sound, Silence and Meditation in the Keyboard Music of Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996) Location: Regency
4:00pm East and West Location: Regency Chair: Nancy Rao , Rutgers University
Pentatonicism, Serialism, Hindemithian “Harmonic Fluctuation,” and Referential Collection Patterns in Zhongrong Luo’s “Picking Lotus Flowers at the Riverside”
Jack Boss
Sonata Genre and Korean Influence: Eastern and Western in Isang Yun’s First Symphony
Anne Delfin
Circles of Fragile Branches in East Asian Fifth-Relations
Liam Hynes-Tawa
7:00pm SMT Composition Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency
9:30pm Not Another Cocktail Party! (An AMS-SMT Dance Party) Location: Regency
9:00am Form II Location: Regency Chair: Andrew Aziz , San Diego State University
Climax and Excess in the Song Forms of Jim Steinman
Alan Reese
Cadenza Reviving a One-Time Theme: The Case of the Dramatic Transition Theme in Mozart’s Piano Concertos K. 467 and K. 482
Ram Reuven
Picking up the Pieces: Form in Late Beethoven
Diego Cubero
10:45am Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music Location: Regency Chair: Orit Hilewicz , Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University
Experiencing the Music of Brian Ferneyhough
David Ellis Orvek
Imagining Posthumanist Musical Agency with George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening
Ryan Jones
When a composer does not want their performers to succeed: examining the vocal and pianistic styles of Strauss’s Der Krämerspiegel (1918)
Cecilia Ester Oinas
2:15pm Chinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity Location: Regency
10:00pm AMS LGBTQ Study Group Party Location: Regency
9:00am Musicking Fans Location: Regency Chair: J. Daniel Jenkins , University of South Carolina
Analyzing Fan Authorship in Vocaloid Music
Brandon Qi
First Time Hearing: YouTube Reaction Videos and the Commodification of the Inexpert Listener
Lauren Rose Irschick
Participatory Covers, Audience Choirs, and Jacob Collier's Public Music Theory
Ben Baker
10:45am Choreography Location: Regency Chair: Maeve Sterbenz
Blooming in Gesture: The Embodied Choreography in Yao Chen’s Lotus Aloft (2014)
Yi-Cheng Daniel Wu
Upping the Ante: Balanchine’s Choreography of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements
Lynne Rogers, Kara Yoo Leaman
Choreopictography: the hermeneutic implications projective symmetry and rhythmic formulae have in Prokofiev’s The Stone Flower
Elwyn Helen Rowlands
