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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9:00am France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm Innovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Daniel Bennett Page
At the Intersection of Oïl and Oc: What Dialects Reveal About ‘Hybrid’ Ars antiqua Motets
Saagar Asnani
Cuckoldry and Compositional Innovation in a Motet on St Lawrence
Jared C Hartt
"Prince of Some Versatility": Symbolic Elements to Carlo Gesualdo’s Marian Worship in Sacrae Cantiones
Wing Heng Victor Yuen
4:00pm Motets as Mediums of Power and Sovereignty Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Barbara Dietlinger , University of North Texas
Political Power and Resistance in an Early Modern Motet Print: Defining the Holy Roman Empire in the Novus thesaurus musicus (1568)
Andrew H. Weaver
The motets of John Mundy: Humanism, crypto-Catholicism, and memory in late-Elizabethan England
Daniel Bennett Page
Sounding Sovereignty: Occasional Motets in the Early Modern Transition
Simon Frisch
9:00am Soundtrack Semantics Location: Lakeshore A Chair: David Clem Discussant: Berthold Hoeckner
“Music for the Eyes” Sebastiano Arturo Luciani and the Roots of Italian Film Music Studies Before and After Synchronized Sound
Tommaso Saturnia
Complicating “Icelandic Sound” in Film and TV Composition
Jeremy J. Peters
Hidden Choirs: Choralism in Hollywood Film Epic Soundtracks
Eugenia Siegel Conte
10:45am Defining Femininity and Female Power through Music Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Mary Simonson
Singing Femininity in a Mennonite Voice
Katie Graber
Only A Woman Knows How to Treat a Woman Right: Chappell Roan and the Queering of Femininity
Madalyn Rose Pridemore
Revenge Anthems: Violence and Gender in Country Music
Alexis K Baril
12:30pm Brown Bag Lunch - An AMS Childhood and Youth Study Group Social Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm Capturing Music: Notational Privilege and Practice Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Ginger Dellenbaugh
Notation as Common Practice
Lynette Bowring
Doctoring the Staff & Doctoring Beethoven: Possibilities and Pitfalls in Transcribing Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s Aesthetics in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin in D Major, op. 61: 1. Allegro ma non troppo
Jessica Ray King
‘Capture in notation’: Ornette Coleman, transcription and il/legibility
Malte Kobel
4:00pm Embodiment and Musical Gendering Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Christina Baade
Sonic Bleeding: Menstruation in Pop Music and the Disruption of Reproductive Time
Echo Lee Davidson
The Conservatory-to-Cult Pipeline in Literary Fiction and Social Media
Shannon Draucker
“I sing like a girl”: Madonna and the voicing of gendered temporalities in the neoliberal era
Hannah Rosa Schiller
7:00pm Dear Lara (film screening) Lara St. John1 , Patrick Hamm2
1: N/A;
2: N/A
Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Ashley Ann Greathouse , University of Cincinnati & Marshall UniversityDiscussant: Daniele Shlomit Sofer , University of Dayton
Becoming “Miss Grym”: Gender, Politics, and Suffragist Impersonation in Vaudeville and Music Halls
Kendall Hatch Winter
Musical Worldbuilding in Drag: Trans-Coded ‘Spliced Collage’ and Audience Co-Creation
Sarah Cooper
“Is That My Camera?”: Voicing Camp on RuPaul’s “Snatch Game”
Morgan Bates
10:45am Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law Location: Lakeshore A
Chair(s): Derek Baron , Matthew Mendez
Discussant(s): Eric Drott
Presenter(s): Audrey Amsellem , Derek Baron , Breana McCullough , Matthew Mendez , Ana María Ochoa , Martin Scherzinger
12:30pm SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm Musical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Matthew Franke
"Not Worth the Price of Engraving": Heugel's failed publication of Rossini’s late piano music
Simon Cohen
Beyond Genius to Ownership in the Early 19th Century
Samuel Ross Budnyk
Who Owns this Song? Translating Musical Property in Nineteenth-Century London
Christopher Parton
4:00pm Sound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725) Location: Lakeshore A
Chair(s): Virginia Lamothe
Presentations of the Symposium
Visual and Sounding Symmetries in the Chansons of Gilles Binchois (ca. 1400–60)
Adam Knight Gilbert
Didactics Beyond Depiction: Ratio, Sensus, and Jesuit Dialectic in Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas (ca. 1680)
Malachai Komanoff Bandy
“Figures” in Marin Marais’s Pièces de Caractère: A Musical Vocabulary of Characters and Actions
Eric Tinkerhess
9:00am Musical Publications in the 18th and 19th Centuries Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Paul Corneilson
The Swiss Museum: A Source Overview
Emily Loeffler
“As Played By …”: Inscribing Ephemera in Nineteenth-Century Performer-Centric Music Editions
Jonathan Kregor
The Giulianiad, the Autodidact, and Mauro Giuliani’s Posthumous Reception in London, 1833–1843
Lindsay Jones
The Death and Afterlife of the Multi-Work Opus
M. Lucy Turner
