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: Great Lakes A |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Manuscript Histories Location: Great Lakes A Chair: Melanie Batoff Mendicants Making Music in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Crete: a Manuscript and the Case for Microhistory Newly Discovered Polyphony from the Winchester Troper Mons superat saltus and Hildegard's Song Texts |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Puccinian Endings, One Hundred Years On: Rotation, Focalization, and Climax in Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot Location: Great Lakes A Presentations of the Symposium Reconsidering Suor Angelica Focalizing Gianni Schicchi Climax Structure in Large-Scale: On the Ending of Puccini’s Turandot, Act 1 |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Musicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology Location: Great Lakes A |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Form, Voice, and Canonicity: Taking Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Seriously Location: Great Lakes A Presentations of the Symposium Form Is Like a Fingerprint: Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Craft Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives: Dolly Parton’s Singing and Storytelling Across Genre Hall of Famous: Dolly Parton and the New Pantheon |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
SMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Great Lakes A |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Searching for "lo inaudito" in the Sound Archive Location: Great Lakes A Presentations of the Symposium Finding What Is Lost: The Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival Dispossession of Archives, Archives of Dispossession Mexican Rarities, De-Sedimentation, and the Promise of a Sound Archive of Postnational Memory |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Structure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music Location: Great Lakes A Chair: Rika Asai Cinematic Structures as Musical Structures in Chantal Akerman’s Early Films Theater and Pantomime Representations in Marcel Carné’s Children of Paradise (1945) Music, Sound and Silence: Contrasting Religious Discourse Through Parallel Adaptations by Scorsese (2016) and Shinoda (1971) |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Listening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice Location: Great Lakes A Presentations of the Symposium A ‘Physically Sound’ Nation: Listening to Fitness Vinyl of the 1960s The Juketheque Record: Continuous Dance Music in 1960s U.S. American Discotheque Jukeboxes Modern Analog Listening and the Transculturation of the Japanese Jazz Kissa |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency Location: Great Lakes A Chair: Megan Sarno Double-Voicedness as Feminist Agency in Johanna Beyer’s “The Federal Music Project” (1936) and “The Composer’s Forum Laboratory” (1937) Dedicating the Exposition: Women musicians in the fin-de-siècle United States through Amy Beach’s para-musical writing ‘Love Has the Victory’: Musical Representations of Female Power in Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
In the Shadow of Mahler Location: Great Lakes A Chair: Brent Wetters Discussant: Karen Painter Mahler’s Role in Bernstein’s Jewish Identity "Abscheulich, langweilig, und obszön": Strauss's Feuersnot as Musical Secession at Mahler's Vienna Court Opera ....music's time is the time of the trees...': Schubert-Mahler-Berio and the Sound of Nature |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts Location: Great Lakes A Presentations of the Symposium The Socio-Cultural and Liturgical Response to the English Sweats or Sudor Anglicus, 1485-1551 Sonic Healing and Resistance: Music and Sound in Asian Healthcare Contexts Charting Trauma’s Embodied Imprints: The Endemic Era and its Sonic Cartographies of Medicalization A Match Made in Medical Doubt: WWI Musico-Therapy and Shell Shock Collective Isolation and the Sonic Environment: Headphones at Waverly Tuberculosis Sanatorium |