Conference Agenda

Session Overview

Date: Wednesday, 05/Nov/2025

8:00am - 5:00pm

Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference
Location: Regency

9:00am - 6:00pm

France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918
Location: Lakeshore A

9:00am - 6:00pm

Music Leadership Forum: Navigating Crisis and Change
Location: Northstar Ballroom A-B

2:00pm - 6:00pm

SMT Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

9:15pm - 10:00pm

AMS Staff & Board Toast
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

Closed meeting.

Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025

7:30am - 12:00pm

AMS Board Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B

Closed meeting.

8:00am - 12:00pm

Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference
Location: Regency

8:00am - 12:00pm

SMT Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

9:00am - 10:30am

Encoding Conflict in Music
Location: Remote Session

9:00am - 10:30am

Exploring Regional and Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century
Location: Remote Session

9:00am - 10:30am

A Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG Lecture)
Location: Remote Session

9:00am - 12:00pm

"Whose Brahms?" Reception and Uses of Nineteenth-Century Music Up to the Present Day
Location: Lakeshore C

9:00am - 12:00pm

SMT Peer Learning Program: A Microcosm of Rhythm: Theorizing and Analyzing Groove-Based Music
Location: Lake Harriet

9:00am - 12:00pm

SMT Peer Learning Program: Shark!: A Dive into Film Music Analysis
Location: St. Croix

9:00am - 1:00pm

France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918
Location: Lakeshore A

10:45am - 12:15pm

Expression in Vocal Music I
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

10:45am - 12:15pm

Joni Mitchell
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

10:45am - 12:15pm

Living in the Longer Now: Indigenous Music/Dance as History (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture)
Location: Remote Session

10:45am - 12:15pm

Meter
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

10:45am - 12:15pm

Musical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition
Location: Remote Session

10:45am - 12:15pm

Pedagogy
Location: Lakeshore B

10:45am - 12:15pm

AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis
Location: Remote Session

10:45am - 12:15pm

Roundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship
Location: Remote Session

11:00am - 1:00pm

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting
Location: Cedar Lake

Closed meeting.

11:45am - 12:30pm

AMS Student Grantees Meet & Greet
Location: Lake Nokomis

By invitation only.

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Joint New Attendee Reception
Location: Northwoods

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji

1:00pm - 2:00pm

AMS Buddy Program Meet-up
Location: Lake Harriet

1:00pm - 2:00pm

SMT Conference Guides
Location: Skyway A-B

1:15pm - 2:00pm

AMS Explore: Orientation
Location: Lake Nokomis

Closed meeting.

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Adapting Musical Performance for the Screen
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

2:15pm - 3:45pm

African Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers
Location: Regency

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Beyond the Score
Location: Lakeshore C

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Disability in Musical Topics and Form
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

2:15pm - 3:45pm

History of Theory I
Location: Mirage

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Innovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets
Location: Lakeshore A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Jewish Musical Theater and Song
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Manuscript Histories
Location: Great Lakes A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Music and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Music Theory and Spirituality
Location: Lakeshore B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Natural Landscapes and Sound Ecologies
Location: Lake Minnetonka

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Rock Narratives
Location: Lake Superior B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Between Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes
Location: Minnehaha

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Developing a Student-Centered Approach to Classroom Learning
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Hybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Musical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Opera as Worldmaking
Location: Northstar Ballroom B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Video Game Franchises and Musical Recontextualization: An Intergenerational Approach
Location: Lake Superior A

3:15pm - 4:30pm

Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

3:15pm - 4:45pm

AMS Board Meet & Greet 1
Location: Exhibit Hall

4:00pm - 5:30pm

20th-Century Ideas I
Location: Mirage

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Cultural Imaginings in Global Organology
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Gender and Embodiment in Chopin
Location: Regency

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Groove
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Motets as Mediums of Power and Sovereignty
Location: Lakeshore A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Music, Education, and Care
Location: Lake Minnetonka

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Opera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Sets and Solfège
Location: Lake Bemidji

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Sound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games
Location: Lake Superior A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Theorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Beyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth
Location: Northstar Ballroom B

4:00pm - 5:30pm

New Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music
Location: Minnehaha

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

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Sonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Teaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

4:00pm - 5:30pm

The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Location: Lakeshore C

4:00pm - 5:30pm

The Prince of Porn: The Racialized Politics of Minneapolis's Music and Sex Culture During the 1980s (Critical Race Lecture)
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Iranian Musical Encounters and Meanings
Location: Lakeshore B

4:30pm - 6:00pm

Joint Interest Groups and Affiliates Fair
Location: Great Lakes B-C

5:00pm - 6:15pm

AMS Presidential Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis

By invitation only.

6:00pm - 7:00pm

12-Step Recovery Meeting
Location: St. Croix

6:30pm - 7:45pm

Joint Welcome Reception
Location: Nicollet Ballroom

7:00pm - 9:00pm

UNC Chapel Hill Reception
Location: Lakeshore C

7:15pm - 8:45pm

SMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Mirage

7:15pm - 8:45pm

SMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

7:30pm - 9:30pm

8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia
Location: Lake Superior A

7:30pm - 9:30pm

AMS Global East Asian Music Research Annual Business Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Musical Explorations of Jewish Past(s)
Location: Minnehaha

8:00pm - 10:00pm

Minnesota Party (University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St. Olaf College)
Location: Lake Harriet

8:30pm - 11:59pm

10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark
Location: Regency

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Northwestern University Reception
Location: Skyway A-B

Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025

12:00am - 12:30am

10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark
Location: Regency

7:15am - 8:45am

SMT Retired Members Breakfast Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis

7:15am - 8:45am

SMT Student Breakfast Reception
Location: Northwoods

7:45am - 8:45am

AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council
Location: Lake Minnetonka

Closed meeting.

8:00am - 9:45am

Joint Poster Session
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A

8:00am - 10:00am

Rewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian vaudeville
Location: Minnehaha

8:30am - 10:30am

History of Theory II
Location: Mirage

9:00am - 10:30am

Form I
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

9:00am - 10:30am

French Court Musics in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Location: Lake Superior B

9:00am - 10:30am

Gendering Asian Musical Instruments and Forms
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

9:00am - 10:30am

Hip-Hop Identities: Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Nationality
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

9:00am - 10:30am

In Fashion: Musical Women in the Long 18th Century
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

9:00am - 10:30am

Liminal and Supernatural Topics
Location: Lake Bemidji

9:00am - 10:30am

Medieval and Early Modern Chant Traditions
Location: Great Lakes C

9:00am - 10:30am

Music and Games
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

9:00am - 10:30am

Music, Sexual Performance, and Ethno-Porn
Location: Lakeshore C

9:00am - 10:30am

Silence and Sound in Urban Environments
Location: Lake Minnetonka

9:00am - 10:30am

Sounding Disability
Location: Lakeshore B

9:00am - 10:30am

Soundtrack Semantics
Location: Lakeshore A

9:00am - 10:30am

“The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

9:00am - 10:30am

200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025
Location: Great Lakes B

9:00am - 10:30am

Listening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture
Location: Lake Superior A

9:00am - 10:30am

Musicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology
Location: Great Lakes A

9:00am - 10:30am

Ravel at 150: Enduring Insights and New Initiatives
Location: Regency

9:00am - 10:30am

Transatlantic Contrafacta: Musical Circulations in Colonial Mexico/New Spain and Territorial New Mexico
Location: Northstar Ballroom B

9:00am - 10:30am

Writing about Music Otherwise
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

9:00am - 12:00pm

SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Analyzing Antiphony: Theorizing Music-Text Relations for the Digital Episteme
Location: St. Croix

9:00am - 12:00pm

SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Hearing Technologies
Location: Cedar Lake

9:30am - 4:30pm

Contemporary Issues in Music & Copyright Law: A CLE Special Session
Location: Skyway A-B

10:15am - 12:15pm

Politics and Representations of Identity in Music
Location: Minnehaha

10:45am - 12:00pm

Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

10:45am - 12:15pm

Braille and Beyond: Making Music Theory Accessible through Inclusive Design
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

10:45am - 12:15pm

Chinese and Chinese-American Operatics
Location: Great Lakes B

10:45am - 12:15pm

Defining Femininity and Female Power through Music
Location: Lakeshore A

10:45am - 12:15pm

In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Location: Lake Superior A

10:45am - 12:15pm

Instrumental and Sonic Masculinities
Location: Regency

10:45am - 12:15pm

Keyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay
Location: Lakeshore B

10:45am - 12:15pm

Memory and Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Music
Location: Great Lakes C

10:45am - 12:15pm

Memory, Affect, and Attention
Location: Lakeshore C

10:45am - 12:15pm

Sonic Redface
Location: Lake Superior B

10:45am - 12:15pm

American Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

10:45am - 12:15pm

Changing the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

10:45am - 12:15pm

Emerging Directions in Music Theory Publication
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

10:45am - 12:15pm

Form, Voice, and Canonicity: Taking Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Seriously
Location: Great Lakes A

10:45am - 12:15pm

Integrating Disciplinary Silos in Our Teaching
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

10:45am - 12:15pm

Reich at 89
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

10:45am - 12:15pm

The Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

10:45am - 12:15pm

Why Worcester?
Location: Northstar Ballroom B

10:45am - 12:45pm

Black American Composers and Coded Meanings
Location: Mirage

10:45am - 12:45pm

Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Music of Troubled Minds
Location: Lake Minnetonka

11:00am - 12:00pm

Project Spectrum Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

11:00am - 12:15pm

Exhibit Hall Showcases: Auralia & Musition, Artusi, and AMS Publications
Location: Exhibit Hall

11:00am - 12:30pm

AMS Board Meet & Greet 2
Location: Exhibit Hall

12:30pm - 1:30pm

AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS/MLA RISM Committee Meeting
Location: Cedar Lake

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities at the University of Leuven (Belgium)
Location: Great Lakes C

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Committee on Disability and Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Lake Nokomis

Open to all attendees.

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Committee on Feminist Issues and Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Lake Harriet

Open to all attendees.

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Improvisation & Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Lakeshore B

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore C

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lake Superior B

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Northstar Ballroom B

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS MDSG Business Meeting with Short Papers, 2025: New Directions in Choreomusicology
Location: Lake Superior A

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Brown Bag Lunch - An AMS Childhood and Youth Study Group Social
Location: Lakeshore A

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Celebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Music of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture
Location: Minnehaha

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Music, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

12:30pm - 2:00pm

New Work in LGBTQ Music Studies
Location: Great Lakes B

12:30pm - 2:30pm

Mozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Knitting Circle
Location: St. Croix

1:00pm - 2:15pm

Exhibit Hall Showcases: Boulanger Initiative, Society for Music Theory, and Coalition of Music Organizations
Location: Exhibit Hall

1:00pm - 3:00pm

SMT CV Review Session
Location: Northwoods

1:00pm - 3:00pm

SMT CV Review Session Waiting Room
Location: Northwoods

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Capturing Music: Notational Privilege and Practice
Location: Lakeshore A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Making Use of Jazz on Screen
Location: Lake Minnetonka

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Operatic Cultures of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Sacred Music and the Performance of Power
Location: Lakeshore B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Singing Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Song Form
Location: Lakeshore C

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Structure and Effect in Beethoven
Location: Great Lakes C

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Techniques and Technologies
Location: Lake Bemidji

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Transatlantic Musical Cultures
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

2:15pm - 3:45pm

(Re)sounding Europe: Borders, Boundaries, Belonging
Location: Great Lakes B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022)
Location: Mirage

2:15pm - 3:45pm

New Horizons with Historical Notations
Location: Northstar Ballroom B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Non-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree
Location: Lake Superior A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Searching for "lo inaudito" in the Sound Archive
Location: Great Lakes A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Socio-technical Histories of Digital Music
Location: Lake Superior B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

2:15pm - 4:15pm

Femininity and Female Archetypes
Location: Minnehaha

2:15pm - 5:30pm

Don't Wake the Balrog! Navigating Copyright Issues in Publication
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

2:15pm - 5:30pm

Teaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Analysis of Vocal Music
Location: Mirage

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Celebrating Scandinavian and Somali Music with the Nordstär Ensemble
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

City Soundscapes
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

4:00pm - 5:30pm

East and West
Location: Regency

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Embodiment and Musical Gendering
Location: Lakeshore A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Form in Popular Music
Location: Lake Bemidji

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Jazz Philosophies and Perspectives
Location: Lake Minnetonka

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Music in the Early Modern Luso-Hispanic World
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Perspectives on 19th-Century Sacred Music
Location: Lakeshore C

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Race, Nation, and Identity
Location: Lake Superior A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Soviet Legacies
Location: Great Lakes B

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Storytelling Through Dance
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Structure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music
Location: Great Lakes A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Technology, Timbre, and Trans Identities
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

4:00pm - 5:30pm

“Crepi il lupo”: Critiquing Labor, Class, and DEIA in the Early Careers of Opera Singers
Location: Great Lakes C

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Editing Musicology and Theory Journals: How Can We Improve the System Together?
Location: Lakeshore B

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Generative AI and New Frontiers in Musicology
Location: Lake Superior B

4:30pm - 6:30pm

Transcultural Historical Musicology
Location: Minnehaha

5:45pm - 6:45pm

Prospective Graduate Student Fair
Location: Nicollet Ballroom B-C

5:45pm - 7:45pm

University of Kansas School of Music Reception
Location: Cedar Lake

6:00pm - 7:30pm

Tufts Friends and Alumni Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis

6:00pm - 8:00pm

RIPM and RILM Reception
Location: Lake Harriet

6:00pm - 8:00pm

University of Cincinnati CCM Reception
Location: Skyway A-B

6:15pm - 8:15pm

Rice University Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Florida State University Musicology and Music Theory Joint Reception
Location: St. Croix

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Friends of Stony Brook
Location: Lake Superior B

6:30pm - 8:30pm

W. W. Norton Reception
Location: Lake Superior A

6:45pm - 7:45pm

AMS Explore: Debrief
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

6:45pm - 7:45pm

Joint Student Reception
Location: Northwoods

7:00pm - 8:30pm

SMT Composition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Regency

7:00pm - 8:30pm

SMT Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Taken in Stride: The Mundanity of Ambulation
Location: Music Box Theatre

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Satie is Dead, Long Live Satie
Location: Mirage

7:00pm - 9:00pm

New York University Reception
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

7:00pm - 9:00pm

University of Illinois Reception
Location: Nicollet Ballroom D1

7:00pm - 9:15pm

Dear Lara (film screening)
Lara St. John¹, Patrick Hamm²
1: N/A; 2: N/A
Location: Lakeshore A

7:30pm - 9:30pm

AMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Birds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the “Human” of “More-than-Human Musicking” (Roundtable and ESG Business Meeting)
Location: Minnehaha

8:00pm - 10:00pm

Brandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

9:00pm - 11:00pm

Columbia University Reception
Location: Lake Harriet

9:00pm - 11:00pm

Society for American Music Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

9:00pm - 11:00pm

University of Chicago Reception
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Case Western Reserve University Reception
Location: Skyway A-B

9:30pm - 11:30pm

CUNY Graduate Center Reception
Location: Lake Superior A

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Not Another Cocktail Party! (An AMS-SMT Dance)
Location: Lakeshore B-C

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis

9:30pm - 11:30pm

University of North Texas Reception
Location: Lake Superior B

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Voices and Viols Jam
Location: Lake Minnetonka

Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025

7:15am - 8:45am

AMS Board and Council Breakfast
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

Closed meeting.

7:15am - 8:45am

SMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B

Closed meeting.

7:30am - 9:00am

Journal of Musicology Pedagogy Editorial Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

8:00am - 10:00am

SMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering
Location: Lake Nokomis

Open to all attendees.

9:00am - 10:30am

18th Century Issues
Location: Mirage

9:00am - 10:30am

Chronicling American Folk Song
Location: Lakeshore C

9:00am - 10:30am

Colonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

9:00am - 10:30am

Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music
Location: Minnehaha

9:00am - 10:30am

Form II
Location: Regency

9:00am - 10:30am

Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation
Location: Lakeshore A

9:00am - 10:30am

Listening Through Machines
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

9:00am - 10:30am

Music and the Visual Arts
Location: Lakeshore B

9:00am - 10:30am

Musical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka

9:00am - 10:30am

New Approaches to Harmonic Function
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

9:00am - 10:30am

Responses to Authoritarianism
Location: Lake Superior B

9:00am - 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

9:00am - 10:30am

Day-to-day Music-Making in the Middle Ages: Re-thinking Historiographical Narratives through the Benedicamus Domino
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

9:00am - 10:30am

Expressing Young Adulthood in Post-2010 American Popular Music: Generation Z, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives
Location: Lake Bemidji

9:00am - 10:30am

Listening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice
Location: Great Lakes A

9:00am - 10:30am

Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

9:00am - 10:30am

Opera and Untold Black Stories
Location: Great Lakes B

9:00am - 10:30am

Planning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty
Location: Lake Superior A

9:00am - 10:30am

War and Peace in France
Location: Great Lakes C

9:00am - 12:15pm

Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

10:45am - 12:00pm

Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall

Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.

10:45am - 12:15pm

Black Racial Representations on the Musical Stage
Location: Great Lakes B

10:45am - 12:15pm

Colonial Narratives and Negotiations
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

10:45am - 12:15pm

Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency
Location: Great Lakes A

10:45am - 12:15pm

Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music
Location: Regency

10:45am - 12:15pm

Expression in Vocal Music II
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

10:45am - 12:15pm

Floating: Music on/in Water
Location: Great Lakes C

10:45am - 12:15pm

Harmony and Narrative in Film Music
Location: Mirage

10:45am - 12:15pm

New Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka

10:45am - 12:15pm

Singing from the original notation: the Libro Primo de la Croce (Rome: Pasoti and Dorico, 1526/1520) and the origins of the madrigal
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

10:45am - 12:15pm

Sounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

10:45am - 12:15pm

The Secret Life of Keyboards
Location: Lakeshore C

10:45am - 12:15pm

Theorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

10:45am - 12:15pm

“Demy-Frères: Perspectives on the Collaboration Between Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand”
Location: Lake Superior B

10:45am - 12:15pm

Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison)
Location: Lake Bemidji

10:45am - 12:15pm

Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel
Location: Lakeshore B

10:45am - 12:15pm

Forms of Listening in Contemporary Politics
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

10:45am - 12:15pm

Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law
Location: Lakeshore A

10:45am - 12:15pm

Performing Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon
Location: Lake Superior A

10:45am - 12:15pm

State of the Field: Jazz and Gender
Location: Minnehaha

10:45am - 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

11:00am - 11:45am

Exhibit Hall Showcases: Auralia & Musition, Artusi
Location: Exhibit Hall

11:00am - 12:30pm

AMS Board Meet & Greet 3
Location: Exhibit Hall

12:00pm - 2:30pm

Dog Therapy
Location: Northwoods

12:30pm - 1:30pm

AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 1:30pm

AMS Explore: Debrief
Location: Lake Nokomis

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS Council Meeting
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

Closed meeting.

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Business meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music
Location: Skyway A-B

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Haydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting
Location: Lake Harriet

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Open Access Musicology
Location: St. Croix

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Analysis of World Musics & Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore A

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore C

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Timbre and Orchestration Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

12:30pm - 2:00pm

SMT Work and Family Interest Group Meeting
Location: Mirage

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Speed Networking
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

12:30pm - 2:00pm

AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Minnehaha

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism.
Location: Lake Minnetonka

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America
Location: Lake Superior B

1:00pm - 2:15pm

Exhibit Hall Showcases: Boulanger Initiative, W. W. Norton
Location: Exhibit Hall

2:15pm - 3:45pm

AMS Pedagogy Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Lake Harriet

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Chinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity
Location: Regency

2:15pm - 3:45pm

European Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace
Location: Great Lakes B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

From Chunking to 8-Bit Soundworlds: Aural Skills Foundations and Musicianship Through Video Game Music (Presented by Auralia & Musition)
Location: Lake Bemidji

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Gendering Strategies in Films
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Identity and Authenticity in Country Music
Location: Lake Superior A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

In the Shadow of Mahler
Location: Great Lakes A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Musical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century
Location: Lakeshore A

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Philosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation
Location: Lakeshore C

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Race and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz
Location: Lake Superior B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Transmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music
Location: Lakeshore B

2:15pm - 3:45pm

American Documentary Opera, Reconsidered
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session One: Roundtable Discussion
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Contemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting
Location: Minnehaha

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Hidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Hip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump
Location: Great Lakes C

2:15pm - 3:45pm

The Baccusi Files: Digital Forensics of a New Corpus of Renaissance Imitation Masses
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

2:15pm - 3:45pm

Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
Location: Lake Minnetonka

2:45pm - 3:30pm

SMT Business Meeting
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D

3:30pm - 4:15pm

SMT Awards Ceremony
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D

4:00pm - 5:30pm

20th Century Musical Institutions
Location: Lake Bemidji

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Concerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries
Location: Great Lakes B

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Italian Opera and Exoticism
Location: Lake Superior A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Musical Landscapes Across the Americas
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Practices of Memory and Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Seeing and Depicting Queerness
Location: Lake Superior B

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Challenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session Two: Workshop
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Mastering the Art of the Abstract
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts
Location: Great Lakes A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age
Location: Lake Minnetonka

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Sound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725)
Location: Lakeshore A

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Sounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Location: Lakeshore B

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Women’s Music Networks in the United States: Illuminating Unseen Labor
Location: Great Lakes C

4:00pm - 6:00pm

K-Pop: Inside, Outside, New and Old
Location: Mirage

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Music and the Fight for Civil Rights
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

4:45pm - 6:00pm

SMT Plenary: Queering the Pitch—Thirty Years On
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D

6:00pm - 7:00pm

AMS Business Meeting
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B

6:00pm - 8:00pm

University of Oregon Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis

6:45pm - 8:45pm

University of Michigan Reception (Musicology and Music Theory)
Location: Lake Superior B

6:45pm - 8:45pm

University of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception
Location: Lake Superior A

7:00pm - 7:30pm

AMS Awards Ceremony
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B

7:30pm - 8:30pm

Joint Awards Reception
Location: Lakeshore A-B-C

7:30pm - 9:30pm

AMS-SMT Trivia Night
Location: Great Lakes C

7:45pm - 9:45pm

Closing the Gap Between Musical and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

7:45pm - 9:45pm

8:00pm - 10:00pm

Stanford University Party
Location: St. Croix

8:00pm - 10:00pm

The University of Texas at Austin Reception
Location: Lake Harriet

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Cornell Reception
Location: Lake Bemidji

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

9:30pm - 11:30pm

McGill University Reception
Location: Lake Superior A

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Princeton University Alumni and Friends Party
Location: Skyway A-B

9:30pm - 11:30pm

UCLA Musicology Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

9:30pm - 11:30pm

University of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception
Location: Lake Superior B

9:30pm - 11:30pm

Yale Party
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

10:00pm - 11:59pm

AMS LGBTQ Study Group Party
Location: Lakeshore A-B-C

Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025

9:00am - 10:30am

20th-Century Ideas II
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B

9:00am - 10:30am

Analysis of Popular Music III
Location: Mirage

9:00am - 10:30am

Dance
Location: Lake Minnetonka

9:00am - 10:30am

Disney and Musical Representations of American Identity
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I

9:00am - 10:30am

Jazz Instrumentalities
Location: Lake Bemidji

9:00am - 10:30am

Music and the Lives of Medieval Women
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

9:00am - 10:30am

Musicking Fans
Location: Regency

9:00am - 10:30am

Opera and Disability Studies
Location: Lakeshore C

9:00am - 10:30am

Re-Sounding the Postcolonial City
Location: Lake Superior A

9:00am - 10:30am

Beyond the Specter of “AI”: Algorithmic Bias, Systems of Power, and the Impact of Machine Learning on Contemporary Soundscapes
Location: Lakeshore B

9:00am - 10:30am

Cinematic Sound, Identity, and Memory: Theorizing the Audience in Film Music Analysis
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

9:00am - 10:30am

Fou Ts'ong's Creative Worlds
Location: Lake Superior B

9:00am - 10:30am

Queen Bey: Perception, Reception, and Audience
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G

9:00am - 10:30am

Sonic Worlds of Race and Ecology
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H

9:00am - 11:00am

Musical Publications in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Location: Lakeshore A

9:00am - 12:00pm

Charles Ives in 2025 (and Beyond): New Perspectives, Interpretations, and Predictions
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

10:45am - 12:15pm

20th Century Compositional Poetics
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F

10:45am - 12:15pm

Choreography
Location: Regency

10:45am - 12:15pm

Intertextuality and Interpretation
Location: Mirage

10:45am - 12:15pm

Making Music and Meaning on the Internet
Location: Lakeshore B

10:45am - 12:15pm

Sounding Excitement and Resistance in Latin American Communities
Location: Lake Superior A

10:45am - 12:15pm

Still Here: Protest, Survival and Queer Worldbuilding
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

10:45am - 12:15pm

Operatic Echoes in the Global Francophone World
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G