Conference Agenda

Session Overview
 
Date: Wednesday, 05/Nov/2025
8:00am - 5:00pmEleventh New Beethoven Research Conference
Location: Regency
9:00am - 6:00pmFrance: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918
Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am - 6:30pmMusic Leadership Forum: Navigating Crisis and Change
Location: Northstar Ballroom A-B
2:00pm - 6:00pmSMT Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

 
Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
7:30am - 12:00pmAMS Board Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B

Closed meeting.
8:00am - 12:00pmEleventh New Beethoven Research Conference
Location: Regency
8:00am - 12:00pmSMT Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.
9:00am - 10:30amA Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG Lecture)
Location: Remote Session
9:00am - 10:30amEncoding Conflict in Music
Location: Remote Session
9:00am - 10:30amExploring Regional and Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century
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 - 12:00pmSMT Peer Learning Workshop: A Microcosm of Rhythm: Theorizing and Analyzing Groove-Based Music
Location: Lake Harriet

By invitation only.
9:00am - 12:00pmSMT Peer Learning Workshop: Shark!: A Dive into Film Music Analysis
Location: St. Croix

By invitation only.
9:00am - 1:00pmFrance: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918
Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am - 12:15pmAnalysis of Popular Music I
Location: Lake Bemidji
10:45am - 12:15pmExpression in Vocal Music I
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am - 12:15pmJoni Mitchell
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
10:45am - 12:15pmLiving in the Longer Now: Indigenous Music/Dance as History (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture)
Location: Remote Session
10:45am - 12:15pmMeter
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmPedagogy
Location: Lakeshore B
10:45am - 12:15pmAMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis
Location: Remote Session
10:45am - 12:15pmRoundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship
Location: Remote Session
10:45am - 12:15pmMusical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition
Location: Remote Session
11:00am - 1:00pmSociety for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting
Location: Cedar Lake

Closed meeting.
11:45am - 12:30pmAMS Student Grantees Meet & Greet
Location: Lake Nokomis

By invitation only.
12:00pm - 1:30pmJoint New Attendee Reception
Location: Northwoods
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji
1:00pm - 2:00pmAMS Buddy Program Meet-up
Location: Lake Harriet
1:00pm - 2:00pmSMT Conference Guides
Location: Skyway A-B
1:15pm - 2:00pmAMS Explore: Orientation
Location: Lake Nokomis

Closed meeting.
2:15pm - 3:45pmAfrican Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers
Location: Regency
2:15pm - 3:45pmDisability in Musical Topics and Form
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
2:15pm - 3:45pmHistory of Theory I
Location: Mirage
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusic Theory and Spirituality
Location: Lakeshore B
2:15pm - 3:45pmBetween Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes
Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm - 3:45pmDeveloping a Student-Centered Approach to Classroom Learning
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
2:15pm - 3:45pmHybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmOpera as Worldmaking
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
2:15pm - 3:45pmAdapting Musical Performance for the Screen
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
2:15pm - 3:45pmBeyond the Score
Location: Lakeshore C
2:15pm - 3:45pmInnovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets
Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm - 3:45pmJewish Musical Theater and Song
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
2:15pm - 3:45pmManuscript Histories
Location: Great Lakes A
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusic and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm - 3:45pmNatural Landscapes and Sound Ecologies
Location: Lake Minnetonka
2:15pm - 3:45pmRock Narratives
Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pmVideo Game Franchises and Musical Recontextualization: An Intergenerational Approach
Location: Lake Superior A
3:15pm - 4:30pmCoffee 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 - 4:45pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 1
Location: Exhibit Hall
4:00pm - 5:30pm20th-Century Ideas I
Location: Mirage
4:00pm - 5:30pmGroove
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm - 5:30pmSets and Solfège
Location: Lake Bemidji
4:00pm - 5:30pmBeyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
4:00pm - 5:30pmNew Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music
Location: Minnehaha
4:00pm - 5:30pmPuccinian Endings, One Hundred Years On: Rotation, Focalization, and Climax in Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot
Location: Great Lakes A
4:00pm - 5:30pmSonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm - 5:30pmCultural Imaginings in Global Organology
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
4:00pm - 5:30pmGender and Embodiment in Chopin
Location: Regency
4:00pm - 5:30pmMotets as Mediums of Power and Sovereignty
Location: Lakeshore A
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic, Education, and Care
Location: Lake Minnetonka
4:00pm - 5:30pmOpera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 5:30pmSound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games
Location: Lake Superior A
4:00pm - 5:30pmTheorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
4:00pm - 5:30pmTeaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
4:00pm - 5:30pmThe “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Location: Lakeshore C
4:00pm - 5:30pmThe 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 - 5:30pmTheorizing Popular Music in the Interregnum: Stylistic Shifts in an Era of Upheaval
Location: Lake Superior B
4:00pm - 6:00pmIranian Musical Encounters and Meanings
Location: Lakeshore B
4:30pm - 6:00pmJoint Interest Groups and Affiliates Fair
Location: Great Lakes B-C
5:00pm - 5:45pmAMS Presidential Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis

By invitation only.
6:00pm - 7:00pm12-Step Recovery Meeting
Location: St. Croix
6:30pm - 7:45pmJoint Welcome Reception
Location: Nicollet Ballroom
7:00pm - 9:00pmUNC Chapel Hill Reception
Location: Lakeshore C
7:15pm - 8:45pmSMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
7:15pm - 8:45pmSMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Mirage
7:30pm - 9:30pm8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia
Location: Lake Superior A
7:30pm - 9:30pmAMS Global East Asian Music Research Annual Business Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji
7:30pm - 9:30pmHistories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
7:30pm - 9:30pmMusical Explorations of Jewish Past(s)
Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm - 10:00pmMinnesota Party (University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St. Olaf College)
Location: Lake Harriet
8:30pm - 11:59pm10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark
Location: Regency
9:30pm - 11:30pmNorthwestern University Reception
Location: Skyway A-B

 
Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
12:00am - 12:30am10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark
Location: Regency
7:15am - 8:45amSMT Retired Members Breakfast Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
7:15am - 8:45amSMT Student Breakfast Reception
Location: Northwoods
7:45am - 8:45amAMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council
Location: Lake Minnetonka

Closed meeting.
8:00am - 9:45amJoint Poster Session
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A
8:00am - 10:00amRewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian vaudeville
Location: Minnehaha
8:30am - 10:30amHistory of Theory II
Location: Mirage
9:00am - 10:30amForm I
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
9:00am - 10:30amLiminal and Supernatural Topics
Location: Lake Bemidji
9:00am - 10:30amMusic and Games
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
9:00am - 10:30am“The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00am - 10:30am200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025
Location: Great Lakes B
9:00am - 10:30amListening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture
Location: Lake Superior A
9:00am - 10:30amMusicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology
Location: Great Lakes A
9:00am - 10:30amRavel at 150: Enduring Insights and New Initiatives
Location: Regency
9:00am - 10:30amFrench Court Musics in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Location: Lake Superior B
9:00am - 10:30amGendering Asian Musical Instruments and Forms
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
9:00am - 10:30amHip-Hop Identities: Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Nationality
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:00am - 10:30amIn Fashion: Musical Women in the Long 18th Century
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
9:00am - 10:30amMedieval and Early Modern Chant Traditions
Location: Great Lakes C
9:00am - 10:30amMusic, Sexual Performance, and Ethno-Porn
Location: Lakeshore C
9:00am - 10:30amSilence and Sound in Urban Environments
Location: Lake Minnetonka
9:00am - 10:30amSounding Disability
Location: Lakeshore B
9:00am - 10:30amSoundtrack Semantics
Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am - 10:30amTransatlantic Contrafacta: Musical Circulations in Colonial Mexico/New Spain and Territorial New Mexico
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
9:00am - 10:30amWriting about Music Otherwise
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
9:00am - 12:00pmSMT Graduate Student Workshop: Analyzing Antiphony: Theorizing Music-Text Relations for the Digital Episteme
Location: St. Croix

By invitation only.
9:00am - 12:00pmSMT Graduate Student Workshop: Hearing Technologies
Location: Lake Harriet

By invitation only.
9:30am - 4:00pmContemporary Issues in Music & Copyright Law: A CLE Special Session
Location: Skyway A-B
10:15am - 12:15pmPolitics and Representations of Identity in Music
Location: Minnehaha
10:45am - 12:00pmCoffee 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 - 12:15pmAnalysis of Popular Music II
Location: Lake Bemidji
10:45am - 12:15pmBraille and Beyond: Making Music Theory Accessible through Inclusive Design
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
10:45am - 12:15pmMemory, Affect, and Attention
Location: Lakeshore C
10:45am - 12:15pmAmerican Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
10:45am - 12:15pmChanging the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmEmerging Directions in Music Theory Publication
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am - 12:15pmForm, Voice, and Canonicity: Taking Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Seriously
Location: Great Lakes A
10:45am - 12:15pmIntegrating Disciplinary Silos in Our Teaching
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
10:45am - 12:15pmReich at 89
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
10:45am - 12:15pmDefining Femininity and Female Power through Music
Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am - 12:15pmIn the Shadow of the Holocaust
Location: Lake Superior A
10:45am - 12:15pmInstrumental and Sonic Masculinities
Location: Regency
10:45am - 12:15pmKeyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay
Location: Lakeshore B
10:45am - 12:15pmChinese and Chinese-American Operatics
Location: Great Lakes B
10:45am - 12:15pmMemory and Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Music
Location: Great Lakes C
10:45am - 12:15pmSonic Redface
Location: Lake Superior B
10:45am - 12:15pmThe Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
10:45am - 12:15pmWhy Worcester?
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
10:45am - 12:45pmBlack American Composers and Coded Meanings
Location: Mirage
10:45am - 12:45pmPsychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Music of Troubled Minds
Location: Lake Minnetonka
11:00am - 12:00pmProject Spectrum Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.
11:00am - 12:30pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 2
Location: Exhibit Hall
12:30pm - 1:30pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS/MLA RISM Committee Meeting
Location: Cedar Lake

Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pmFellowship and Scholarship Opportunities at the University of Leuven (Belgium)
Location: Great Lakes C
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Committee on Disability and Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Lake Nokomis
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Committee on Feminist Issues and Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Lake Harriet
12:30pm - 2:00pmSociety for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS MDSG Business Meeting with Short Papers, 2025: New Directions in Choreomusicology
Location: Lake Superior A
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Music and Marxism Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
12:30pm - 2:00pmBrown Bag Lunch - An AMS Childhood and Youth Study Group Social
Location: Lakeshore A
12:30pm - 2:00pmCelebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lake Superior B
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Improvisation & Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Lakeshore B
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore C
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusic of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture
Location: Minnehaha
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusic, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
12:30pm - 2:00pmNew Work in LGBTQ Music Studies
Location: Great Lakes B
12:30pm - 2:30pmMozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
1:00pm - 2:00pmKnitting Circle
Location: St. Croix
1:00pm - 3:00pmSMT CV Review Session
Location: Northwoods
1:00pm - 3:00pmSMT CV Review Session Waiting Room
Location: Northwoods
2:15pm - 3:45pmAspects of Sound, Silence and Meditation in the Keyboard Music of Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Location: Regency
2:15pm - 3:45pmSong Form
Location: Lakeshore C
2:15pm - 3:45pmTechniques and Technologies
Location: Lake Bemidji
2:15pm - 3:45pm(Re)sounding Europe: Borders, Boundaries, Belonging
Location: Great Lakes B
2:15pm - 3:45pmConstructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022)
Location: Mirage
2:15pm - 3:45pmNew Horizons with Historical Notations
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
2:15pm - 3:45pmNon-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree
Location: Lake Superior A
2:15pm - 3:45pmSearching for "lo inaudito" in the Sound Archive
Location: Great Lakes A
2:15pm - 3:45pmSocio-technical Histories of Digital Music
Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pmSymbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmMaking Use of Jazz on Screen
Location: Lake Minnetonka
2:15pm - 3:45pmCapturing Music: Notational Privilege and Practice
Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm - 3:45pmOperatic Cultures of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
2:15pm - 3:45pmSacred Music and the Performance of Power
Location: Lakeshore B
2:15pm - 3:45pmSinging Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
2:15pm - 3:45pmStructure and Effect in Beethoven
Location: Great Lakes C
2:15pm - 3:45pmTransatlantic Musical Cultures
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm - 4:15pmFemininity and Female Archetypes
Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm - 5:30pmDon't Wake the Balrog! Navigating Copyright Issues in Publication
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
2:15pm - 5:30pmTeaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm - 5:30pmAnalysis of Vocal Music
Location: Mirage
4:00pm - 5:30pmCelebrating Scandinavian and Somali Music with the Nordstär Ensemble
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
4:00pm - 5:30pmEast and West
Location: Regency
4:00pm - 5:30pmForm in Popular Music
Location: Lake Bemidji
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 - 5:30pmEditing Musicology and Theory Journals: How Can We Improve the System Together?
Location: Lakeshore B
4:00pm - 5:30pmCity Soundscapes
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
4:00pm - 5:30pmJazz Philosophies and Perspectives
Location: Lake Minnetonka
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic in the Early Modern Luso-Hispanic World
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
4:00pm - 5:30pmPerspectives on 19th-Century Sacred Music
Location: Lakeshore C
4:00pm - 5:30pmRace, Nation, and Identity
Location: Lake Superior A
4:00pm - 5:30pmSoviet Legacies
Location: Great Lakes B
4:00pm - 5:30pmStorytelling Through Dance
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 5:30pmEmbodiment and Musical Gendering
Location: Lakeshore A
4:00pm - 5:30pmStructure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music
Location: Great Lakes A
4:00pm - 5:30pmTechnology, Timbre, and Trans Identities
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm - 6:00pmGenerative AI and New Frontiers in Musicology
Location: Lake Superior B
4:30pm - 6:30pmTranscultural Historical Musicology
Location: Minnehaha
5:45pm - 6:45pmProspective Graduate Student Fair
Location: Nicollet Ballroom B-C
5:45pm - 7:45pmUniversity of Kansas School of Music Reception
Location: Cedar Lake
6:00pm - 7:30pmTufts Friends and Alumni Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm - 8:00pmRIPM and RILM Reception
Location: Lake Harriet
6:00pm - 8:00pmUniversity of Cincinnati CCM Reception
Location: Skyway A-B
6:15pm - 8:15pmRice University Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
6:30pm - 8:30pmFlorida State University Musicology and Music Theory Joint Reception
Location: St. Croix
6:30pm - 8:30pmFriends of Stony Brook
Location: Lake Superior B
6:30pm - 8:30pmW. W. Norton Reception
Location: Lake Superior A
6:45pm - 7:45pmAMS Explore: Debrief
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.
6:45pm - 7:45pmJoint Student Reception
Location: Northwoods
7:00pm - 8:30pmTaken in Stride: The Mundanity of Ambulation
Location: Music Box Theatre
7:00pm - 8:30pmSMT Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
7:00pm - 8:30pmSMT Composition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Regency
7:00pm - 8:30pmSatie is Dead, Long Live Satie
Location: Mirage
7:00pm - 9:00pmNew York University Reception
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
7:00pm - 9:00pmUniversity of Illinois Reception
Location: Lakeshore C
7:00pm - 9:15pmDear Lara (film screening)
Lara St. John1, Patrick Hamm2
1: N/A; 2: N/A
Location: Lakeshore A
7:30pm - 9:30pmAMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji
7:30pm - 9:30pmBirds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the “Human” of “More-than-Human Musicking” (Roundtable and ESG Business Meeting)
Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm - 10:00pmBrandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00pm - 11:00pmColumbia University Reception
Location: Lake Harriet
9:00pm - 11:00pmSociety for American Music Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
9:00pm - 11:00pmUniversity of Chicago Reception
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:30pm - 11:30pmCase Western Reserve University Reception
Location: Skyway A-B
9:30pm - 11:30pmCUNY Graduate Center Reception
Location: Lake Superior A
9:30pm - 11:30pmNot Another Cocktail Party! (An AMS-SMT Dance Party)
Location: Regency
9:30pm - 11:30pmSociety for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of North Texas Reception
Location: Lake Superior B
9:30pm - 11:30pmVoices and Viols Jam
Location: Lake Minnetonka

 
Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
7:15am - 8:45amAMS Board and Council Breakfast
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

Closed meeting.
7:15am - 8:45amSMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B
7:30am - 9:00amJournal of Musicology Pedagogy Editorial Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.
8:00am - 10:00amSMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering
Location: Lake Nokomis
9:00am - 10:30am18th Century Issues
Location: Mirage
9:00am - 10:30amForm II
Location: Regency
9:00am - 10:30amNew Approaches to Harmonic Function
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
9:00am - 10:30amAMS 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 - 10:30amDay-to-day Music-Making in the Middle Ages: Re-thinking Historiographical Narratives through the Benedicamus Domino
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
9:00am - 10:30amExpressing Young Adulthood in Post-2010 American Popular Music: Generation Z, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives
Location: Lake Bemidji
9:00am - 10:30amListening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice
Location: Great Lakes A
9:00am - 10:30amMusic, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:00am - 10:30amOpera and Untold Black Stories
Location: Great Lakes B
9:00am - 10:30amPlanning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty
Location: Lake Superior A
9:00am - 10:30amColonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
9:00am - 10:30amCultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music
Location: Minnehaha
9:00am - 10:30amGender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation
Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am - 10:30amListening Through Machines
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00am - 10:30amMusic and the Visual Arts
Location: Lakeshore B
9:00am - 10:30amMusical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka
9:00am - 10:30amResponses to Authoritarianism
Location: Lake Superior B
9:00am - 10:30amChronicling American Folk Song
Location: Lakeshore C
9:00am - 10:30amWar and Peace in France
Location: Great Lakes C
9:00am - 12:15pmHearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am - 12:00pmCoffee 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 - 12:15pmExperience and Agency in 20th Century Music
Location: Regency
10:45am - 12:15pmExpression in Vocal Music II
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
10:45am - 12:15pmHarmony and Narrative in Film Music
Location: Mirage
10:45am - 12:15pmSinging 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“Demy-Frères: Perspectives on the Collaboration Between Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand”
Location: Lake Superior B
10:45am - 12:15pmAnalytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison)
Location: Lake Bemidji
10:45am - 12:15pmCreative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel
Location: Lakeshore B
10:45am - 12:15pmForms of Listening in Contemporary Politics
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
10:45am - 12:15pmLegal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law
Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am - 12:15pmPerforming Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon
Location: Lake Superior A
10:45am - 12:15pmState of the Field: Jazz and Gender
Location: Minnehaha
10:45am - 12:15pmColonial Narratives and Negotiations
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
10:45am - 12:15pmComposing Women: Identity and Creative Agency
Location: Great Lakes A
10:45am - 12:15pmFloating: Music on/in Water
Location: Great Lakes C
10:45am - 12:15pmBlack Racial Representations on the Musical Stage
Location: Great Lakes B
10:45am - 12:15pmNew Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka
10:45am - 12:15pmSounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmThe Secret Life of Keyboards
Location: Lakeshore C
10:45am - 12:15pmTheorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
10:45am - 12:15pmTracing 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 - 12:30pmAMS Board Meet & Greet 3
Location: Exhibit Hall
12:00pm - 2:30pmDog Therapy
Location: Northwoods
12:30pm - 1:30pmAMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 1:30pmAMS Explore: Debrief
Location: Lake Nokomis

Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Council Meeting
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D

Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pmBusiness meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music
Location: Skyway A-B
12:30pm - 2:00pmHaydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting
Location: Lake Harriet
12:30pm - 2:00pmOpen Access Musicology
Location: St. Croix
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Great Lakes A
12:30pm - 2:00pmSpeed Networking
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Minnehaha
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Lake Superior A
12:30pm - 2:00pmBad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore C
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore A
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Analysis of World Musics & Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Timbre and Orchestration Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Work and Family Interest Group Meeting
Location: Mirage
12:30pm - 2:00pmMusicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism.
Location: Lake Minnetonka
12:30pm - 2:00pmSounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America
Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pmChinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity
Location: Regency
2:15pm - 3:45pmFrom Chunking to 8-Bit Soundworlds: Aural Skills Foundations and Musicianship Through Video Game Music (Presented by Auralia & Musition)
Location: Lake Bemidji
2:15pm - 3:45pmAmerican Documentary Opera, Reconsidered
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
2:15pm - 3:45pmContemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session One: Roundtable Discussion
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
2:15pm - 3:45pmContemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting
Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm - 3:45pmHidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm - 3:45pmHip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump
Location: Great Lakes C
2:15pm - 3:45pmEuropean Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace
Location: Great Lakes B
2:15pm - 3:45pmGendering Strategies in Films
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmIdentity and Authenticity in Country Music
Location: Lake Superior A
2:15pm - 3:45pmIn the Shadow of Mahler
Location: Great Lakes A
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century
Location: Lakeshore A
2:15pm - 3:45pmPhilosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation
Location: Lakeshore C
2:15pm - 3:45pmRace and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz
Location: Lake Superior B
2:15pm - 3:45pmTransmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music
Location: Lakeshore B
2:15pm - 3:45pmThe Baccusi Files: Digital Forensics of a New Corpus of Renaissance Imitation Masses
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
2:15pm - 3:45pmWorkshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
Location: Lake Minnetonka
2:45pm - 3:30pmSMT Business Meeting
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
3:30pm - 4:15pmSMT Awards Ceremony
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusical Landscapes Across the Americas
Location: Northstar Ballroom A-B
4:00pm - 5:30pmChallenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
4:00pm - 5:30pmContemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session Two: Workshop
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm - 5:30pmMastering the Art of the Abstract
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
4:00pm - 5:30pmMusic, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts
Location: Great Lakes A
4:00pm - 5:30pmPreserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age
Location: Lake Minnetonka
4:00pm - 5:30pmSound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725)
Location: Lakeshore A
4:00pm - 5:30pmSounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Location: Lakeshore B
4:00pm - 5:30pm20th Century Musical Institutions
Location: Lake Bemidji
4:00pm - 5:30pmConcerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries
Location: Great Lakes B
4:00pm - 5:30pmItalian Opera and Exoticism
Location: Lake Superior A
4:00pm - 5:30pmPractices of Memory and Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
4:00pm - 5:30pmSeeing and Depicting Queerness
Location: Lake Superior B
4:00pm - 5:30pmWomen’s Music Networks in the United States: Illuminating Unseen Labor
Location: Great Lakes C
4:00pm - 6:00pmK-Pop: Inside, Outside, New and Old
Location: Mirage
4:00pm - 6:00pmMusic and the Fight for Civil Rights
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 6:00pmPopular Music and the Global Caribbean
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:30pm - 6:00pmSMT Plenary: Queering the Pitch—Thirty Years On
Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
6:00pm - 7:00pmAMS Business Meeting
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
6:00pm - 8:00pmUniversity of Oregon Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
6:45pm - 8:45pmUniversity of Michigan Reception (Musicology and Music Theory)
Location: Lake Superior B
6:45pm - 8:45pmUniversity of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception
Location: Lake Superior A
7:00pm - 7:30pmAMS Awards Ceremony
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
7:30pm - 8:30pmJoint Awards Reception
Location: Lakeshore A-B-C
7:30pm - 9:30pmAMS-SMT Trivia Night
Location: Great Lakes C
7:45pm - 9:45pmClosing the Gap Between Musical and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
7:45pm - 9:45pmPopular Music and/as Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
8:00pm - 10:00pmStanford University Party
Location: St. Croix
8:00pm - 10:00pmThe University of Texas at Austin Reception
Location: Lake Harriet
9:30pm - 11:30pmCornell Reception
Location: Lake Bemidji
9:30pm - 11:30pmIndiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:30pm - 11:30pmMcGill University Reception
Location: Lake Superior A
9:30pm - 11:30pmPrinceton University Alumni and Friends Party
Location: Skyway A-B
9:30pm - 11:30pmUCLA Musicology Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:30pm - 11:30pmUniversity of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception
Location: Lake Superior B
9:30pm - 11:30pmYale Party
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:00pm - 11:59pmAMS LGBTQ Study Group Party
Location: Regency

 
Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30am20th-Century Ideas II
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
9:00am - 10:30amAnalysis of Popular Music III
Location: Mirage
9:00am - 10:30amDance
Location: Lake Minnetonka
9:00am - 10:30amMusicking Fans
Location: Regency
9:00am - 10:30amBeyond the Specter of “AI”: Algorithmic Bias, Systems of Power, and the Impact of Machine Learning on Contemporary Soundscapes
Location: Lakeshore B
9:00am - 10:30amCinematic Sound, Identity, and Memory: Theorizing the Audience in Film Music Analysis
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
9:00am - 10:30amFou Ts'ong's Creative Worlds
Location: Lake Superior B
9:00am - 10:30amFrom the Garden to the Sea: Sonic Worlds of Race and Ecology
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
9:00am - 10:30amDisney and Musical Representations of American Identity
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
9:00am - 10:30amJazz Instrumentalities
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00am - 10:30amMusic and the Lives of Medieval Women
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:00am - 10:30amOpera and Disability Studies
Location: Lakeshore C
9:00am - 10:30amRe-Sounding the Postcolonial City
Location: Lake Superior A
9:00am - 11:00amMusical Publications in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am - 12:00pmCharles Ives in 2025 (and Beyond): New Perspectives, Interpretations, and Predictions
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
10:45am - 12:15pm20th Century Compositional Poetics
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
10:45am - 12:15pmChoreography
Location: Regency
10:45am - 12:15pmIntertextuality and Interpretation
Location: Mirage
10:45am - 12:15pmOperatic Echoes in the Global Francophone World
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmQueen Bey: Perception, Reception, and Audience
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
10:45am - 12:15pmMaking Music and Meaning on the Internet
Location: Lakeshore B
10:45am - 12:15pmSounding Excitement and Resistance in Latin American Communities
Location: Lake Superior A
10:45am - 12:15pmStill Here: Protest, Survival and Queer Worldbuilding
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D