Below is a list of upcoming events that might be of interest to SMT members. You may click on the event title for more information.
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SMT Subventions are awarded on a competitive basis for scholarly projects that advance the discipline. They are intended to reimburse scholars for costs incurred with the preparation and publishing of an article or book that has been accepted for publication;…
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Each year the Annual Meeting Grants Subcommittee considers special funding requests from standing committees, interest groups, and individual SMT members for activities held at the SMT…
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The SMT provides funding to certain eligible groups to travel to the annual meeting.
Note: the deadline to apply for an International Travel Grant is July 12.
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Diversity, inclusion, belonging, and social justice are important goals of the Society for Music Theory. These goals cannot simply be proclaimed; we must all work toward them. There is no better starting point than in our undergraduate classrooms. It is for this reason that the SMT introduces…
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The Society for Music Theory, with 1,200 members, brings together academics, graduate students, and other professionals specializing in musicology and music theory in higher education. It will be the forty-seventh Annual Meeting and provides an opportunity for…
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he Society for Music Perception and Cognition invites abstract submissions for presentations, posters, and symposia to be shared at our conference in Banff, Canada, July 25–28, 2024. We welcome contributions from all disciplines exploring a wide range of themes in music perception and cognition…
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Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University) and Andrew Hicks (Cornell University) are delighted to announce that after an extended pandemic hiatus, the Historical Notation Bootcamp (https://blogs.cornell.edu/hnb/) will be held July 29–August 2, 2024. We are…
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Since Charles Keil (1987) argued that very small variations in timing, which he called
“participatory discrepancies,” were crucial for a sensation of groove, microrhythm has been
the subject of much scholarship in a variety of disciplines. Researchers have struggled to find
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We warmly invite submissions for ‘Diffractions’, a forthcoming international symposium on intra-actions between music studies and the theoretical, philosophical, and political work of Karen Barad.
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The second annual UB International Guitar Research Conference will be held at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus, from Saturday, September 28, to Sunday, September 29, 2024.
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The second annual UB International Guitar Research Conference will be held at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus, from Saturday, September 28, to Sunday, September 29, 2024.
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You are cordially invited to join us for Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture, a large-scale music festival coming to the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music from Monday, Sept. 30 through Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. All events are FREE of charge, but registration is…
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The Institute of Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg is delighted to be the venue for the next annual congress of the Association of German-speaking Music Theory (GMTH).
The Second Biennial Conference on Expression, Language, and Music (ELM2) will bring together researchers from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, music theory, dance theory, anthropology, and neurobiology with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives…
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The 15th Biennial International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis, organized by the
Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, will take place from Friday 4 to Sunday
6 October 2024 at the University of Arts in Belgrade. We welcome paper proposals on different…
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The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group is delighted to announce our 5th symposium, “Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire.” In resistance to ongoing insidious ahistorical extortionist neoliberal greed, our symposium echoes the call of our previous events to center care and community in…
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The year 2024 marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the British composer Gustav Holst, as well as the ninetieth anniversary of his death. Although his music remains an enduring fixture of the orchestral (The Planets) and wind band (Suites, Hammersmith) canons,…
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