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: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Expression in Vocal Music I Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Chair: Chelsea Burns, University of Texas at Austin “Be Bimbos, Ladies!” Vocality, Drag, and the Chappell Roan Persona Non-Normativity as Queer Expression in Reneé Rapp’s Snow Angel (2023) "Let the Vagina Have A Monologue": Exploring Persona in Janelle Monáe's Music |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Hybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80 Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Presentations of the Symposium A/semanticity and plastic constraint: Anthony Braxton’s new notations Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music as Meta-tradition |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Teaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Presentations of the Symposium Form in Electronic Dance Music: A Pedagogical Approach EDM as Timbre Learning Lab Teaching Rhythmic Theory Through Electronic Dance Music |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Music and Games Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Chair: Peter Smucker, Stetson University DM as DJ?: Understanding the Dungeon Master as Player through Ludomusicality Musical Function and Meaning in the Japanese Role-Playing Game Tracing Percussion Orchestration in Early NES Soundtracks (1983-1987): Understanding Coded Parameters Through FFT Analysis |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Emerging Directions in Music Theory Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Presentations of the Symposium Modeling Musical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2025) “Music Theory in the Plural,” - Music Theory Online SMT-V |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B |
| 2:15pm - 5:30pm |
Don't Wake the Balrog! Navigating Copyright Issues in Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Presentations of the Symposium Introduction to US and European Copyright Laws' Roles in Academic Music Publications The role of libraries and librarians Transforming video examples Asian languages and copyright research Creating an open educational resource |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
New York University Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 12:15pm |
Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Presentations of the Symposium Sonic Misogyny and Resistance: Gender-based Violence and Girlhood in J-pop ...And My (Trans?) Gender Analysis Subversion and the Double Burden in Varvara Gaigerova’s Suite for Viola and Piano Teaching Fanny: Marginalized Voices in Rock and the Role of AI in Repertorial Equity Identity in the Brass Quintet Genre |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Mastering the Art of the Abstract Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B |
| 9:30pm - 11:30pm |
Yale Party Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
20th-Century Ideas II Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B Chair: Benjamin Levy, University of California, Santa Barbara The Dialectic of Instrumental Synthesis and the Mimetic Afterlives of Musique Spectrale Pulsing in a Hall of Mirrors: Musical Borrowing in John Adams’s Absolute Jest “Silence is the Canvas behind the Sound”: From Gesture to Timbre in Rebecca Saunders’s Works for Strings |