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 International Travel Grants Application Deadline
The Committee on Race and Ethnicity administers the International Travel grant program to ameliorate costs for theorists outside the US and Canada who wish to participate…
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SMT Subventions for Events Application Deadline
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 Annual…
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SMT Subvention Grants Application Deadline
SMT Subvention Grants are awarded on a competitive basis and are intended to reimburse scholars for costs incurred with the preparation and publication of research in music theory. In exceptional cases, Subvention funds may be used to reimburse scholars for costs associated with organizing…
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Rethinking Landscape: Environment, Place, and Heritage in British Music Studies
ZoomThe topic of the 2025 biennial symposium is Rethinking Landscape: Environment, Place, and Heritage in British Music Studies. Landscape and environment have been topics of perennial interest in British Music Studies, inspiring both celebrated and controversial readings of connections between…
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Workshop on Probabilistic Models of Music Cognition
Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NYProbabilistic models and methods are a central part of modern cognitive science and have been widely used in music cognition as well. Probabilistic models have been proposed for musical processes such as key perception, meter perception, segmentation, and expectation; recently, several studies…
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Manchester Music Analysis Conference (McrMAC 2025)
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of ManchesterThe SMA is pleased to confirm dates for the Manchester Music Analysis Conference (McrMAC 2025), which will take place from Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 July 2025 at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester.
The McrMAC 2025 programme committee welcomes…
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Workshop on ‘Keywords for the Analysis of Modern East Asian Music’ (Leeds, 17 July 2025)
The School of Music, University of LeedsThe School of Music, University of Leeds is pleased to announce a workshop on ‘Keywords for the Analysis of Modern East Asian Music’, to be held on Thursday 17 July 2025.
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Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds
Cincinnati, OhioThe University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and
the National Endowment for the Humanities present
Cincinnati Sounds:
Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds
July 6–11 and July 20–25, 2025
Applications Due: 5 March 2025
University…
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Sixth Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Music Theory and Analysis (TeMA): Knowledge production in Music: relevance of Musical Theory and Analysis and its intersections with Practice
Hybrid - UDESC in Florianópolis, Santa CatarinaThe Brazilian Association of Musical Theory and Analysis (TeMA) is pleased to invite all interested parties to submit paper proposals for the VI TeMA Meeting, which will be held in hybrid mode between August 18 and 21, 2025 at UDESC in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina.
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Musica Viva Festival: Music in the Galant Style and Beyond – A Modern Renaissance
Florence (Italy)The Musica Viva: Florence Festival presents an International Mini-Conference titled "Music in the Galant Style and Beyond – A Modern Renaissance," taking place from August 20 to 22, 2025, in Florence, Italy. This scholarly gathering will bring together performers, musicologists,…
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Eduard Hanslick 1825-2025: Background, Context, Legacy
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, AustriaWe warmly invite you to submit an abstract in either German or English on any topic related to Hanslick. Critical assessments of his writings and activities are as welcome as explorations of broader topics and issues related to Hanslick as an aesthetic theorist, scholar, music critic, and…
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8th Biennial Conference of the International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association (IMSEA)
Yunnan University, ChinaThe International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association (IMSEA) is pleased to announce its upcoming biennial meeting, under the theme: “Heritage and Community”
We invite proposals that address topics and issues related to the creation, transmission, and inheritance of…
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12th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology
Sogang University, Seoul, South KoreaThe Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) conference is the premiere
venue for scholars engaging with digital libraries in the domain of
music and musicology. It provides a forum for musicians, musicologists,
librarians, and technologists to share findings and expertise.…
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Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM 2025)
Aalborg University, DenmarkConference Theme: "Getting to Grips with Musical Complexity"
This year’s theme encourages submissions addressing large and complex
musical works or insights from diverse digital music collections. We
especially welcome research using innovative computing paradigms (e…
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Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM2025)
Aalborg University, DenmarkThe Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM2025) will take place at Aalborg University, Denmark, on October 8–10, 2025. Following editions in Athens (2023) and Utrecht (2024), ICCCM2025 invites researchers to explore the intersection of musicology,…
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Practitioner-Centered Music Theory: Concepts, Methods, Perspectives
The Ohio State University, Columbus OHTo honor the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Ohio State University School of Music, we are excited to invite you to a conference on Practitioner-Centered Music Theory: Concepts, Methods, Perspectives.
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AAWM Special Topics Symposium 2025: Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia
Cornell UniversityThe year 2025 marks the third installment of the Analytical Approaches to World Musics Special Topics Symposium series, dedicated to the intersections of indigenous and contemporary music theories, music analysis, and diverse musical traditions of Asia. The symposium will be held October 11-14,…
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Artsong and Gender in Dialogue, an online lecture series
OnlineThe Artsong and Gender in Dialogue online lecture series, organized by Maria Behrendt (from the Hannover University of Music, Drama, and Media) and Anna Bredenbach (from the University of Erfurt) is seeking proposals that explore the intersections between art song and gender, including studies…
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“Whose Brahms?” Reception and Uses of Nineteenth-Century Music Up to the Present Day: A Pre-Conference for the 2025 Joint AMS-SMT Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, MNSince at least the nineteenth century, Western concert music has been used by divergent political and social causes as a rallying point, as model, and as a potent communicator of personal and group identities. Brahms's music, for example, has represented the political ideals of Vienna'…
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