Thursday, July 3, 2025

The Lost Voices of Electronic Music History

The dominant narratives of electronic music tend to centre around institutions including the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, radio studios such as WDR (Germany), INA-GRM (France), PRES (Poland), and NHK (Japan) as well as Universities including Princeton and Columbia, and the activity of composers…

Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Screening Live Performance

A two-day cross-disciplinary conference, "Screening Live Performance" will bring together scholars and practitioners to consider the impact, aesthetics, history, and future of multi-camera production in the performing arts. "Screening Live Performance" will feature a workshop…

Deadline: Friday, March 21, 2025

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds

The 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…

Deadline: Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Rethinking Landscape: Environment, Place, and Heritage in British Music Studies

The 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…

Deadline: Monday, April 28, 2025

Monday, July 14, 2025

Workshop on Probabilistic Models of Music Cognition

Probabilistic 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…

Monday, July 14, 2025

Manchester Music Analysis Conference (McrMAC 2025)

The 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…

Deadline: Friday, February 21, 2025

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Workshop on ‘Keywords for the Analysis of Modern East Asian Music’ (Leeds, 17 July 2025)

The 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.

Deadline: Friday, May 30, 2025

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds

The 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…

Deadline: Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Friday, August 1, 2025

Open Access Musicology

Deadline: Friday, August 1, 2025

Monday, August 18, 2025

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

The 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.

Deadline: Saturday, May 3, 2025

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Musica Viva Festival: Music in the Galant Style and Beyond – A Modern Renaissance

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,…

Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Eduard Hanslick 1825-2025: Background, Context, Legacy

We 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…

Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025

Friday, September 19, 2025

8th Biennial Conference of the International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association (IMSEA)

The 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…

Deadline: Monday, March 31, 2025

Friday, September 26, 2025

12th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology

The 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.…

Deadline: Friday, May 9, 2025

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM 2025)

Conference 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…

Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM2025)

The 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,…

Deadline: Monday, June 30, 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Practitioner-Centered Music Theory: Concepts, Methods, Perspectives

To 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.

Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Saturday, October 11, 2025

AAWM Special Topics Symposium 2025: Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia

The 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,…

Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2025

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

“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

Since 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'…

Deadline: Sunday, April 6, 2025

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

France: Musiques, Cultures 1798-1914 AMS-SMT pre-conference

The France: Musiques, Cultures 1789-1918 network is assembling a pre-conference on November 5-6, 2025 before the joint annual meeting of the AMS and SMT in Minneapolis. Proposals for papers, organized panels, workshops, performances, or other activities on any topic relating to French music…

Deadline: Friday, June 20, 2025