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By participating in this year’s meeting, you will reach a large, specialized audience of customers for your products and services. We are expecting more than 700 registrants of leading specialists in the U.S., Canada, and other countries, including heads of research institutes, academic deans and department chairs, private consultants, and graduate students.

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Please join us this fall as we gather for our 47th Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, FL. Our Annual Meeting attracts more than 700 theorists from colleges, universities, and conservatories from around the world

2022 award winner Audrey Slote presenting

This award is given annually to a graduate or undergraduate music student for a scholarly presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory. Application deadline: October 15.

“Whole-Tone Collections and Temporal Dislocation in Film Music” by Zachary Cairns is now available at SMT-V.org and on YouTube.
SMT newsletter

The August 2024 issue of the SMT Newsletter is now available! The Newsletter is now available to view in a web-based format. A PDF version is still available for download.

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"Simultaneous Distinct Headbanging Patterns in Heavy Metal" by Guy Capuzzo is now available at SMT-V.org and on YouTube.
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With articles by Boyle and Sherrill, Donaldson, Geary, Gran, Neidhöfer, Eron, and Tönies.