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: Lakeshore A |
| Date: Wednesday, 05/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 6:00pm |
France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Lakeshore A |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 1:00pm |
France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Lakeshore A |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
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 Cuckoldry and Compositional Innovation in a Motet on St Lawrence "Prince of Some Versatility": Symbolic Elements to Carlo Gesualdo’s Marian Worship in Sacrae Cantiones |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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) The motets of John Mundy: Humanism, crypto-Catholicism, and memory in late-Elizabethan England Sounding Sovereignty: Occasional Motets in the Early Modern Transition |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 Complicating “Icelandic Sound” in Film and TV Composition Hidden Choirs: Choralism in Hollywood Film Epic Soundtracks |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Defining Femininity and Female Power through Music Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Mary Simonson Singing Femininity in a Mennonite Voice Only A Woman Knows How to Treat a Woman Right: Chappell Roan and the Queering of Femininity Revenge Anthems: Violence and Gender in Country Music |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Brown Bag Lunch - An AMS Childhood and Youth Study Group Social Location: Lakeshore A |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Capturing Music: Notational Privilege and Practice Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Ginger Dellenbaugh Notation as Common Practice 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 ‘Capture in notation’: Ornette Coleman, transcription and il/legibility |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Embodiment and Musical Gendering Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Christina Baade Sonic Bleeding: Menstruation in Pop Music and the Disruption of Reproductive Time The Conservatory-to-Cult Pipeline in Literary Fiction and Social Media “I sing like a girl”: Madonna and the voicing of gendered temporalities in the neoliberal era |
| 7:00pm - 9:15pm |
Dear Lara (film screening) Lara St. John1, Patrick Hamm2 1: N/A; 2: N/A Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Syracuse University |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Ashley Ann Greathouse, University of Cincinnati & Marshall University Discussant: Daniele Shlomit Sofer, University of Dayton Becoming “Miss Grym”: Gender, Politics, and Suffragist Impersonation in Vaudeville and Music Halls Musical Worldbuilding in Drag: Trans-Coded ‘Spliced Collage’ and Audience Co-Creation “Is That My Camera?”: Voicing Camp on RuPaul’s “Snatch Game” |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law Location: Lakeshore A |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore A |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
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 Beyond Genius to Ownership in the Early 19th Century Who Owns this Song? Translating Musical Property in Nineteenth-Century London |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Sound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725) Location: Lakeshore A Presentations of the Symposium Visual and Sounding Symmetries in the Chansons of Gilles Binchois (ca. 1400–60) Didactics Beyond Depiction: Ratio, Sensus, and Jesuit Dialectic in Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas (ca. 1680) “Figures” in Marin Marais’s Pièces de Caractère: A Musical Vocabulary of Characters and Actions |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 11:00am |
Musical Publications in the 18th and 19th Centuries Location: Lakeshore A Chair: Paul Corneilson The Swiss Museum: A Source Overview “As Played By …”: Inscribing Ephemera in Nineteenth-Century Performer-Centric Music Editions The Giulianiad, the Autodidact, and Mauro Giuliani’s Posthumous Reception in London, 1833–1843 The Death and Afterlife of the Multi-Work Opus |