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
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
-
6:30pm
Music Leadership Forum: Navigating Crisis and Change
Location: Northstar Ballroom A-B
2:00pm
-
6:00pm
SMT Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
7:30am
-
12:00pm
AMS Board Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B
8:00am
-
12:00pm
Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference
Location: Regency
SMT Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

9:00am
-
10:30am
A Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG Lecture)
Location: Remote Session
Encoding Conflict in Music
Location: Remote Session
Exploring 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
SMT Peer Learning Workshop: A Microcosm of Rhythm: Theorizing and Analyzing Groove-Based Music
Location: Lake Harriet

By invitation only.

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

By invitation only.

 
9:00am
-
1:00pm
France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918
Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am
-
12:15pm
Analysis of Popular Music I
Location: Lake Bemidji
Expression in Vocal Music I
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
Joni Mitchell
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Meter
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Pedagogy
Location: Lakeshore B
AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis
Location: Remote Session
Roundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship
Location: Remote Session
Musical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition
Location: Remote Session
11:00am
-
1:00pm
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting
Location: Cedar Lake
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
1:00pm
-
2:00pm
AMS Buddy Program Meet-up
Location: Lake Harriet
SMT Conference Guides
Location: Skyway A-B
1:15pm
-
2:00pm
AMS Explore: Orientation
Location: Lake Nokomis
2:15pm
-
3:45pm
African Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers
Location: Regency
Disability in Musical Topics and Form
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
History of Theory I
Location: Mirage
Music Theory and Spirituality
Location: Lakeshore B
Between Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes
Location: Minnehaha
Developing a Student-Centered Approach to Classroom Learning
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Hybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
Musical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Opera as Worldmaking
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
Adapting Musical Performance for the Screen
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Beyond the Score
Location: Lakeshore C
Innovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets
Location: Lakeshore A
Jewish Musical Theater and Song
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
Manuscript histories
Location: Great Lakes A
Music and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Natural Landscapes and Sound Ecologies
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Rock Narratives
Location: Lake Superior B
Video Game Franchises and Musical Recontextualization: An Intergenerational Approach
Location: Lake Superior A
   
4:00pm
-
5:30pm
20th-Century Ideas I
Location: Mirage
Groove
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Sets and Solfège
Location: Lake Bemidji
Beyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
New Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music
Location: Minnehaha
Puccinian Endings, One Hundred Years On: Rotation, Focalization, and Climax in Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot
Location: Great Lakes A
Sonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Cultural Imaginings in Global Organology
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Gender and Embodiment in Chopin
Location: Regency
Motets as Mediums of Power and Sovereignty
Location: Lakeshore A
Music, Education, and Care
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Opera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Sound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games
Location: Lake Superior A
Theorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Teaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Location: Lakeshore C
The Prince of Porn: The Racialized Politics of Minneapolis's Music and Sex Culture During the 1980s (Critical Race Lecture)
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
Theorizing Popular Music in the Interregnum: Stylistic Shifts in an Era of Upheaval
Location: Lake Superior B
   
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
-
5:45pm
AMS Presidential Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm
-
7:00pm
12-Step Recovery Meeting
Location: St. Croix
6:30pm
-
7:45pm
Joint Welcome Reception
Location: Nicollet Ballroom
7:15pm
-
8:45pm
SMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
SMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Mirage
7:30pm
-
9:30pm
8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia
Location: Lake Superior A
AMS Global East Asian Music Research Annual Business Meeting
Elina Hamilton
Location: Lake Bemidji
Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Musical Explorations of Jewish Past(s)
Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm
-
10:00pm
University of Minnesota Party
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 Coffee Hour
Location: Lake Nokomis
SMT Student Breakfast Reception
Location: Northwoods
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
Liminal and Supernatural Topics
Location: Lake Bemidji
Music and Games
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
“The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025
Location: Great Lakes B
Listening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture
Location: Lake Superior A
Musicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology
Location: Great Lakes A
Ravel at 150: Enduring Insights and New Initiatives
Location: Regency
French Court Musics in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Location: Lake Superior B
Gendering Asian Musical Instruments and Forms
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Hip-Hop Identities: Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Nationality
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
In Fashion: Musical Women in the Long 18th Century
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Medieval and Early Modern Chant Traditions
Location: Great Lakes C
Music, Sexual Performance, and Ethno-Porn
Location: Lakeshore C
Silence and Sound in Urban Environments
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Sounding Disability
Location: Lakeshore B
Soundtrack Semantics
Location: Lakeshore A
Transatlantic Contrafacta: Musical Circulations in Colonial Mexico/New Spain and Territorial New Mexico
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
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

By invitation only.

SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Hearing Technologies
Location: Lake Harriet

By invitation only.

9:30am
-
4:00pm
Seminar on Copyright and Ethics for Legal Professionals: A CLE Special Session
Location: Skyway A-B
10:15am
-
12:15pm
Politics and Representations of Identity in Music
Location: Minnehaha
10:45am
-
12:15pm
Analysis of Popular Music II
Location: Lake Bemidji
Braille and Beyond: Making Music Theory Accessible through Inclusive Design
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Memory, Affect, and Attention
Location: Lakeshore C
American Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Changing the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Emerging Directions in Music Theory Publication
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
Form, Voice, and Canonicity: Taking Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Seriously
Location: Great Lakes A
Integrating Disciplinary Silos in Our Teaching
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
Reich at 89
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Defining Femininity and Female Power through Music
Location: Lakeshore A
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Location: Lake Superior A
Instrumental and Sonic Masculinities
Location: Regency
Keyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay
Location: Lakeshore B
Chinese and Chinese-American Operatics
Location: Great Lakes B
Memory and Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Music
Location: Great Lakes C
Sonic Redface
Location: Lake Superior B
The Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Why Worcester?
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
   
10:45am
-
12:45pm
Black American Composers and Coded Meanings
Location: Mirage
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Music of Troubled Minds
Location: Lake Minnetonka
12:30pm
-
1:30pm
AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1
Location: Executive Boardroom
12:30pm
-
2:00pm
AMS/MLA RISM Committee Meeting
Location: Cedar Lake
SMT Committee on Disability and Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Lake Nokomis
SMT Committee on Feminist Issues and Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Lake Harriet
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
AMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting
James Heazlewood-Dale
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
AMS MDSG Business Meeting with Short Papers, 2025: New Directions in Choreomusicology
Location: Lake Superior A
AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Business Meeting
Eric Drott
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Brown Bag Lunch - An AMS Childhood and Youth Study Group Social
Hannah Neuhauser
Location: Lakeshore A
Celebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
SMT Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lake Superior B
SMT Improvisation & Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Lakeshore B
SMT Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore C
SMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
SMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji
SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Music of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture
Location: Minnehaha
Music, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
New Work in LGBTQ Music Studies
Location: Great Lakes C
   
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
-
3:00pm
SMT CV Review Session
Location: Northwoods
SMT CV Review Session Waiting Room
Location: Northwoods
2:15pm
-
3:45pm
Aspects of Sound, Silence and Meditation in the Keyboard Music of Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Location: Regency
Song Form
Location: Lakeshore C
Techniques and Technologies
Location: Lake Bemidji
(Re)sounding Europe: Borders, Boundaries, Belonging
Location: Great Lakes B
Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022)
Location: Mirage
New Horizons with Historical Notations
Location: Northstar Ballroom B
Non-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree
Location: Lake Superior A
Searching for "lo inaudito" in the Sound Archive
Location: Great Lakes A
Socio-technical Histories of Digital Music
Location: Lake Superior B
Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Making Use of Jazz on Screen
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Capturing Music: Notational Privilege and Practice
Location: Lakeshore A
Operatic Cultures of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Sacred Music and the Performance of Power
Location: Lakeshore B
Singing Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Structure and Effect in Beethoven
Location: Great Lakes C
Transatlantic Musical Cultures
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
     
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
Teaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm
-
5:30pm
Analysis of Vocal Music
Location: Mirage
Celebrating Scandinavian and Somali Music with the Nordstär Ensemble
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
East and West
Location: Regency
Form in Popular Music
Location: Lake Bemidji
“Crepi il lupo”: Critiquing Labor, Class, and DEIA in the Early Careers of Opera Singers
Location: Great Lakes C
Editing Musicology and Theory Journals: How Can We Improve the System Together?
Location: Lakeshore B
City Soundscapes
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Jazz Philosophies and Perspectives
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Music in the Early Modern Luso-Hispanic World
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Perspectives on 19th-Century Sacred Music
Location: Lakeshore C
Race, Nation, and Identity
Location: Lake Superior A
Soviet Legacies
Location: Great Lakes B
Storytelling Through Dance
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Embodiment and Musical Gendering
Location: Lakeshore A
Structure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music
Location: Great Lakes A
Technology, Timbre, and Trans Identities
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
War and Peace in France
Location: Northstar Ballroom 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
AMS Explore: Debrief
Location: Executive Boardroom
Prospective Graduate Student Fair
Location: Nicollet Ballroom B-C
6:00pm
-
7:30pm
Tufts Friends and Alumni Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm
-
8:00pm
RIPM and RILM Reception
Location: Lake Harriet
University of Cincinnati CCM Reception
Location: Skyway A-B
6:30pm
-
8:30pm
Florida State University Musicology and Music Theory Joint Reception
Location: Lake Bemidji
Rice University Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
6:45pm
-
7:45pm
Joint Student Reception
Location: Northwoods
7:00pm
-
8:30pm
Taken in Stride
Location: Music Box Theatre
SMT Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
SMT Composition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Regency
Satie is Dead, Long Live Satie
Location: Mirage
7:00pm
-
9:00pm
New York University Reception
Location: Lakeshore C
7:00pm
-
9:15pm
Dear Lara (film screening)
Lara St. John, Patrick Hamm
Location: Lakeshore A
7:30pm
-
9:30pm
W. W. Norton Reception
Location: Lake Superior A
AMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting
Location: St. Croix
Birds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the “Human” of “More-than-Human Musicking” (Roundtable and ESG Business Meeting)
Location: Minnehaha
 
9:00pm
-
11:00pm
Columbia University Reception
Location: Lake Harriet
Society for American Music Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
University of Chicago Reception
Location: Lake Superior B
 
9:30pm
-
11:30pm
Not Another Cocktail Party! (An AMS-SMT Dance Party)
Location: Regency
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception
Location: Lake Nokomis
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
SMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting
Location: Skyway A-B
7:30am
-
9:00am
Journal of Music Pedagogy Editorial Board Meeting
Location: Executive Boardroom

Closed meeting.

8:00am
-
10:00am
SMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering
Location: Lake Nokomis
9:00am
-
10:30am
18th Century Issues
Location: Mirage
Form II
Location: Regency
New Approaches to Harmonic Function
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
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
Day-to-day Music-Making in the Middle Ages: Re-thinking Historiographical Narratives through the Benedicamus Domino
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Expressing Young Adulthood in Post-2010 American Popular Music: Generation Z, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives
Location: Lake Bemidji
Listening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice
Location: Great Lakes A
Mastering the Art of the Abstract
Location: Great Lakes C
Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Opera and Untold Black Stories
Location: Great Lakes B
Planning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty
Location: Lake Superior A
Colonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music
Location: Minnehaha
Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation
Location: Lakeshore A
Listening Through Machines
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Music and the Visual Arts
Location: Lakeshore B
Musical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Responses to Authoritarianism
Location: Lake Superior B
Chronicling American Folk Song
Location: Lakeshore C
 
9:00am
-
12:15pm
Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am
-
12:15pm
Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music
Location: Regency
Expression in Vocal Music II
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Harmony and Narrative in Film Music
Location: Mirage
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
“Demy-Frères: Perspectives on the Collaboration Between Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand”
Location: Lake Superior B
Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison)
Location: Lake Bemidji
Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel
Location: Lakeshore B
Forms of Listening in Contemporary Politics
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law
Location: Lakeshore A
Performing Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon
Location: Lake Superior A
State of the Field: Jazz and Gender
Location: Minnehaha
Colonial Narratives and Negotiations
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency
Location: Great Lakes A
Floating: Music on/in Water
Location: Great Lakes C
Black Racial Representations on the Musical Stage
Location: Great Lakes B
New Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore)
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Sounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
The Secret Life of Keyboards
Location: Lakeshore C
Theorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
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
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
AMS Explore: Debrief
Location: Lake Nokomis
12:30pm
-
2:00pm
Business meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music
Location: Skyway A-B
Haydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting
Location: Lake Harriet
Open Access Musicology
Location: St. Croix
SMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting
Location: Great Lakes A
Speed Networking
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A
AMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting
Gabrielle Cornish
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting
Daniel Castro Pantoja
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting
Kelsey Klotz
Location: Minnehaha
AMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting
Victor Szabo
Location: Lake Superior A
Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
SMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore C
SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting
Location: Lakeshore A
SMT Analysis of World Musics & Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Lake Bemidji
SMT Timbre and Orchestration Interest Group Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
SMT Work and Family Interest Group Meeting
Location: Mirage
Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism.
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America
Location: Lake Superior B
     
2:15pm
-
3:45pm
Chinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity
Location: Regency
American Documentary Opera, Reconsidered
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Contemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting
Location: Minnehaha
Hidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Hip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump
Location: Great Lakes C
European Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace
Location: Great Lakes B
Gendering Strategies in Films
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Identity and Authenticity in Country Music
Location: Lake Superior A
In the Shadow of Mahler
Location: Great Lakes A
Musical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century
Location: Lakeshore A
Philosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation
Location: Lakeshore C
Race and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz
Location: Lake Superior B
Transmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music
Location: Lakeshore B
The Baccusi Files: Digital Forensics of a New Corpus of Renaissance Imitation Masses
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
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
Musical Landscapes Across the Americas
Location: Northstar Ballroom A-B
Challenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts
Location: Great Lakes A
Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Sound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725)
Location: Lakeshore A
Sounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Location: Lakeshore B
20th Century Musical Institutions
Location: Lake Bemidji
Concerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries
Location: Great Lakes B
Italian Opera and Exoticism
Location: Lake Superior A
Practices of Memory and Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Seeing and Depicting Queerness
Location: Lake Superior B
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
Music and the Fight for Civil Rights
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Popular Music and the Global Caribbean
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
 
4:30pm
-
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
7:00pm
-
7:30pm
AMS Awards Ceremony
Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
7:00pm
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9:00pm
University of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception
Location: Lake Superior A
7:30pm
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8:30pm
Joint Awards Reception
Location: Lakeshore A-B-C
7:30pm
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9:30pm
AMS-SMT Trivia Night
Location: Great Lakes C
7:45pm
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9:45pm
Closing the Gap Between Musical and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Creating Critical Editions of Music
Location: Mirage
Popular Music and/as Resistance
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
 
8:00pm
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10:00pm
The University of Texas at Austin Reception
Location: Lake Harriet
9:30pm
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11:30pm
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Princeton University Alumni and Friends Party
Location: Skyway A-B
UCLA Musicology Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
University of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception
Location: Lake Superior B
10:00pm
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11:59pm
AMS LGBTQ Study Group Party
Lee K. Tyson
Location: Regency
Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
20th-Century Ideas II
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
Analysis of Popular Music III
Location: Mirage
Dance
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Musicking Fans
Location: Regency
Beyond the Specter of “AI”: Algorithmic Bias, Systems of Power, and the Impact of Machine Learning on Contemporary Soundscapes
Location: Lakeshore B
Cinematic Sound, Identity, and Memory: Theorizing the Audience in Film Music Analysis
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Fou Ts'ong's Creative Worlds
Location: Lake Superior B
From the Garden to the Sea: Sonic Worlds of Race and Ecology
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Disney and Musical Representations of American Identity
Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
Jazz Instrumentalities
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Music and the Lives of Medieval Women
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Opera and Disability Studies
Location: Lakeshore C
Re-Sounding the Postcolonial City
Location: Lake Superior A
     
9:00am
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11:00am
Musical Publications in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am
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12:00pm
Charles Ives in 2025 (and Beyond): New Perspectives, Interpretations, and Predictions
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
10:45am
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12:15pm
20th Century Compositional Poetics
Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
Choreography
Location: Regency
Intertextuality and Interpretation
Location: Mirage
Operatic Echoes in the Global Francophone World
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Queen Bey: Perception, Reception, and Audience
Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
Making Music and Meaning on the Internet
Location: Lakeshore B
Sounding Excitement and Resistance in Latin American Communities
Location: Lake Superior A
Still Here: Protest, Survival and Queer Worldbuilding
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D