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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10:45am Pedagogy Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Timothy K Chenette
The Commodification of the Music Theory and Aural Skills Core Curriculum
Dave Easley
Representation in Music Theory Pedagogy Authorship
Kimberly Goddard Loeffert, John Peterson
Teaching Timbre, Teaching Games: Video Game Music as a Pedagogical Asset
Holly Bergeron-Dumaine
2:15pm Music Theory and Spirituality Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Laura Emmery , Emory University
The Rhythmicon and Henry Cowell’s Theosophical Neoplatonism
Anna Maria Gawboy
"It's About Time": George Russell and Fourth Way Metaphysics
Mark Micchelli
Seeing (Heavenly) Harmony: Music-Theoretical Mythmaking in Mrs. F. J. Hughes’s Harmonies of Tones and Colours Developed by Evolution (1883)
Stephanie Venturino
4:00pm Iranian Musical Encounters and Meanings Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Armaghan Fakhraeirad
Politics of (Dis)connection: Iranian Musicians, Social Media, and Diasporic Encounters
Siavash Mohebbi
From Silence to Sound: Iranian Women Musicking under Suppression and after Migration
Kimia Fakharinia
‘I, too, was once a musician’: The double-marginalisation of Iranian Migrant Musicians in Canada
Michelle Assay
Secularizing Social Identity Through Performing Khayyami
Hamidreza Fallahi
9:00am Sounding Disability Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Jeannette D. Jones Discussant: David VanderHamm , Johnson County Community College
Music and visual disability in the early modern Hispanic world: The tradition of blind organists
Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita
Rendering Disability: Experiencing the Sonically Disabled Film Body
Andrew Tubbs
Traces of d/Deaf History: Listening to Henri Gaillard's 1918 Laboratoire de la Parole Recording
Sarah Fuchs
10:45am Keyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Jason Rosenholtz-Witt , University of Kentucky
Reviving the Ghost in the Machine: The Steinway Spirio and the New Era of Mechanical Performance
Allison Wente
Redefining "Old" Organ Tablature
Travis Deck Whaley
Rudolf Serkin’s Rolls with the Punches
Melanie Lowe
12:30pm SMT Improvisation & Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Lakeshore B
2:15pm Sacred Music and the Performance of Power Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Melinda Latour
Afro-European Music, Religion and Performance in the Early Modern Kingdom of Kongo
Janie Cole
Amo Christum: Music for a Divine Marriage
Katherine Jane Sucha
Translation as Musical Reclamation: Oratorio Adaptation and Sephardic Acoustic Identity in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
Paul Gustav Feller-Simmons
4:00pm Editing Musicology and Theory Journals: How Can We Improve the System Together? Location: Lakeshore B
Chair(s): Trudi Ann Wright
Discussant(s): Ryan Bañagale , Nicole Biamonte , Melanie Lowe
Presenter(s): Daniel Barolsky , Johanna Devaney , Jake Johnson , Jessica Sternfeld , Elizabeth Wollman
9:00am Music and the Visual Arts Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Navid Bargrizan , East Carolina University
"Music That Makes Holes in the Sky": The Idea of Absolute Music in Georgia O'Keeffe's Early Music Paintings
Frederick Cruz Nowell
Wassily Kandinsky: A Paint-Splattered Musical Modernist
Emma Bolton
Fanny Hensel’s Notturno Napolitano in the Artistic Imagination
Deirdre Toh
10:45am Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel Location: Lakeshore B
Chair(s): Michelle Assay
Presentations of the Symposium
A“Bad” German: Walter Kretschmer in Weinberg’s "The Passenger"
Nicole Steinberg
“Her Voice Is Full of Money”: Daisy Buchanan’s Siren Song in Kate Soper’s "Voices from the Killing Jar"
Jacob LaBarge
Sympathy for the Devil: Woland as Adaptation
Olga Haldey
2:15pm Transmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music Location: Lakeshore B Chair: Inna Naroditskaya
Opera Audiences in St. Petersburg, Russia (1825-1840)
Daniil Zavlunov
The Three Rachmaninoffs: Late-Romantic, Symbolist, & Post-Romantic
Keenan A. Reesor
Alaben voisen: A Turkish Song in Avignon (ca. 1630-1650)
Ana Beatriz Mujica
4:00pm Sounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Location: Lakeshore B
Chair(s): Charissa Noble
Presentations of the Symposium
NEW GENRE PUBLIC OPERA: CRITICISM AND AESTHETICS IN "ANOTHER CITY."
Kathryn L. Caton
HEAR MỊ OUT: REMIXING ETHNICITY/CIVILIZATION IN V-POP
Damjan Rakonjac
MEDELLINIFICACIÓN: GENTRIFICATION, TOURISTIFICATION, AND THE URBAN AURAL SPHERE
Juan Fernando Velasquez
