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: Northstar Ballroom B
Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
2:15pm
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3:45pm		 Opera as Worldmaking
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
 

Chair(s): Claudio Vellutini

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Generating the Globe Through Abandoned Dido

Jessica Gabriel Peritz

 

A New Musical Cosmography: Freedom, Nation, & Song in <The Travellers> (1806)

Devon J Borowski

 

Theater In and Of the Mind: The Resonant Worlds of Radio Opera

Danielle Simon
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 Beyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
 

Chair(s): Frederick Reece

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The “Crimes” of Frédéric Kalkbrenner: Celebrity Fraud and Parasocial Relationships

Shaena B. Weitz

 

Reputation, Myth, and Fiction in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of Salieri’s _Axur, re d’Ormus_

Kristin Franseen

 

Beethoven’s Bust and Phrenology from 1812 to the Present

Hester Bell Jordan
Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 Transatlantic Contrafacta: Musical Circulations in Colonial Mexico/New Spain and Territorial New Mexico
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
 

Chair(s): Sarah Eyerly

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Contrafacta for Evangelization and Devotion in Colonial Mexico: Three Case Studies

Antonio Ruiz-Caballero

 

Second Responsories at Eighteenth-Century Mexico City Cathedral

Dianne Goldman

 

Migrant Melodies Across Borders: Contrafactum Practices in 19th-Century Catholic New Mexico

Javier Marín-López
10:45am
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12:15pm		 Why Worcester?
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
 

Chair(s): Jared Hartt

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Worcester I

Eric Nemarich

 

Worcester III

Johanna-Pauline Thöne

 

Worcester II

Karen Desmond
12:30pm
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2:00pm		 AMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
 
2:15pm
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3:45pm		 New Horizons with Historical Notations
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
 

Chair(s): Jeannette D Jones, Evan A. MacCarthy

Presenter(s): Marcel Camprubí, María de la Luz Enríquez Rubio, Andrew Hicks, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Marc Lewon, Ana Beatriz Mujica, Emily Zazulia
Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 AMS Global Music History Study Group Keynote: Examining the Construction of Continental and Hemispheric Categories in Music History: 'European Music' and 'Western Music'
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
 

Chair(s): Hedy Law, Ireri Chávez Bárcenas, Daniel Castro Pantoja

Discussant(s): Diane Oliva, Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit

Presenter(s): David RM Irving
10:45am
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12:15pm		 Tracing the Intersection of Dance and Music through the University of Minnesota Performing Arts Archive and the Francis V Gorman Rare Arts Books, Media, and Artists Archives
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
 

Chair(s): Destiny Meadows, Rachel Gain

Presenter(s): Deborah Ultan