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 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.
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Edited Collection: Resonant Worlds: Sound, Matter, and Environmental Design in Games
Resonant Worlds: Sound, Matter, and Environmental Design in Games
Edited by Michael Austin and Kate Galloway
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Subventions for Events at the Annual Meeting
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 Meeting.
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SMT Travel Grants - Family Care, Accessibility, IUU, Many Voices
The SMT provides funding to the annual meeting for eligible attendees.
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Western University Graduate Symposium on Music
Don Wright Faculty of Music and OnlineWestern University, Canada, August 21 - 22, 2026
The Society of Graduate Students in Music at Western University is pleased to announce our 27th annual Graduate Symposium (WUGSOM).
Call for Papers, Presentations, and Lecture-Recitals
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CFP: Musimédiane
The Musimédiane journal, published by the French Society for Music Analysis (SFAM), has renewed its editorial board and is launching an open call for contributions. Submissions may be written in French or English.
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EuroMAC 11
Barcelona (Spain)We are pleased to announce that EuroMAC 11, the Eleventh European Music Analysis Conference, will take place in Barcelona from 7 to 10 September 2026. Most venues will take place at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC).
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SMT Award for Diversity Course Design
This annual award honors outstanding undergraduate syllabi that promote diversity in music theory. Two awards will be given each year:
- One for syllabi for core theory curricula
- One for syllabi for topical…
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Music, Craft, and the Fibre Arts: Textures in Conversation
Western University (London, Ontario, Canada)We invite proposals for presentations on music-fibre arts intersections for a symposium that forms part of a 3-day festival, Music, Craft, and the Fibre Arts: Textures in Conversation, to be held at Western University in London, Ontario (Canada), September 18–20, 2026.
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Fourth International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM 2026)
Centre for Philology and Digitality at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, GermanyThe Fourth International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM 2026) will take place at Centre for Philology and Digitality at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, on September 21-23, 2026. Following editions in Athens (2023), Utrecht (2024), and Aalborg (2025…
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Biennial Meeting of the American Bach Society
Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH, USAThe 2026 American Bach Society (ABS) meeting will take place at Baldwin Wallace University (BW) in Berea, Ohio. BW is home to the first collegiate Bach Festival in the United States, the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (RBI), and BACH: The Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. In…
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Analytical Approaches to World Musics Special Topics Symposium 2026: REPOSITIONING LOCAL EPISTEMOLOGIES IN AFRICAN MUSIC RESEARCH: TOWARD ADVANCING THEORY AND ANALYSIS
OnlineWe conceive of the conference theme broadly; possible topics and subthemes include, but are not limited to:
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16th Biennial International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis
Rectorate of the University of Arts in Belgrade (Kosančićev venac 29)As the Department of Music Theory of the Faculty of Music celebrates 20 years of its modern existence under a new name, the 16th International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis raises questions about the polyphonic nature of music theory and its methodologies. The proposed theme is…
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Third Biennial Conference on Expression, Language, and Music (ELM3)
University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)The Third Biennial Conference on Expression, Language, and Music (ELM3) 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 miracle of hearing. Musical hearing between artistic ambition, creativity, and science
Halle (Saale), GermanySection I: Musical perception and form
Section II: Musical perception from the perspectives of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychoacoustics
Section III: Music education approaches between music theory, ear training and artistic standards
Section IV: Free topics and open…
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Rhythm under the Microscope II: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Microrhythm and Tempo Variability in Popular Music
University of Music and Performing Arts ViennaIn September 2024, scholars gathered at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna for Rhythm Under the Microscope, a conference examining microtiming and groove in popular music. Keynote speakers Anne Danielsen and Justin London explored the effects of a variety of parameters on the…
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International Carl Nielsen Conference 2026: Carl Nielsen and Beyond. Music, Musical Cultures and Future Nielsen Studies
Carl Nielsen Centre, Museum Odense, Odense, Denmark.To mark the opening of the Carl Nielsen Centre at Museum Odense, an international hub
for Nielsen studies, all aspiring and established Nielsen scholars are invited to attend the
International Carl Nielsen Conference 2026: Carl Nielsen and Beyond. Music,
Musical Cultures and…
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49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT)
Milwaukee, WisconsinThe forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT) will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from Thursday, November 5, to Sunday, November 8, 2026.
Emerging Directions in Musicology
Sydney Conservatorium of MusicThe student representatives of the Musicological Society of Australia — Sydney Chapter invite abstracts from musicology students across NSW for the annual Student Symposium, exploring emerging directions in musicology.
The Symposium provides students with an opportunity to share their…
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26th International Conference "Principles of Music Composing: Interaction between Technologies and Conventions"
Vilnius, Lithuania26th International Conference
Principles of Music Composing:
Interaction between Technologies and Conventions
November 18–20, 2026
Vilnius, Lithuania
Special guest: Prof. Panayiotis Kokoras, University of North Texas, US
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