Monday, September 7, 2026

EuroMAC 11

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).

Deadline: Monday, January 5, 2026

Monday, September 14, 2026

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…

Deadline: Monday, September 14, 2026

Friday, September 18, 2026

Music, Craft, and the Fibre Arts: Textures in Conversation

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.

Deadline: Monday, June 15, 2026

Monday, September 21, 2026

Fourth International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM 2026)

The 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…

Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Biennial Meeting of the American Bach Society

The 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…

Deadline: Thursday, January 15, 2026

Thursday, October 1, 2026

Analytical Approaches to World Musics Special Topics Symposium 2026: REPOSITIONING LOCAL EPISTEMOLOGIES IN AFRICAN MUSIC RESEARCH: TOWARD ADVANCING THEORY AND ANALYSIS

We conceive of the conference theme broadly; possible topics and subthemes include, but are not limited to:

Deadline: Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Friday, October 2, 2026

16th Biennial International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis

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…

Deadline: Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Friday, October 2, 2026

Third Biennial Conference on Expression, Language, and Music (ELM3)

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…

Deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2026

Friday, October 2, 2026

The miracle of hearing. Musical hearing between artistic ambition, creativity, and science

Section 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…

Deadline: Sunday, May 10, 2026

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Rhythm under the Microscope II: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Microrhythm and Tempo Variability in Popular Music

In 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…

Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026

Thursday, October 22, 2026

International Carl Nielsen Conference 2026: Carl Nielsen and Beyond. Music, Musical Cultures and Future Nielsen Studies

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…

Deadline: Friday, June 5, 2026

Thursday, November 5, 2026

49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT)

The 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. 

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

26th International Conference "Principles of Music Composing: Interaction between Technologies and Conventions"

26th 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

Deadline: Saturday, September 12, 2026

Friday, November 20, 2026

JAM 2026 – Articulating Orality and Notation in Music

For its 2026 Journées d'Analyse Musicale, the SFAM (French Society for Music Analysis) has formed a partnership with Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Conservatoire de Bordeaux Jacques-Thibaud and SCRIME. As in previous editions, the aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and…

Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2026

Friday, November 20, 2026

Journées d’Analyse Musicale

The call for papers for the 2026 JAM (Journées d’Analyse Musicale) has been extended until June 15, 2026, in order to encourage greater representation of various musical genres, particularly jazz and contemporary amplified music.

Deadline: Monday, June 15, 2026

Thursday, December 31, 2026

Intersections CFP

We invite submission to Intersections, a digitally published bilingual (French and English) journal for refereed scholarly research in music.

Submission of around 7,000 words are accepted on a rolling basis.

Deadline: Thursday, December 31, 2026

Friday, March 5, 2027

At Play: Performance, Analysis, and Artistic Research

The interactions of performance, analysis, and artistic research have provoked debate at least since the start of the 21st century. Differing schools of thought have in turn interacted with, castigated, and ignored one another. The time is ripe for a reappraisal of work implicating these three…

Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Friday, March 5, 2027

At Play: Performance, Analysis, and Artistic Research

5–7 March 2027
University of Colorado Boulder

Call for presentations
Submission deadline: 1 September 2026

Keynotes:
Ian Pace (piano and musicology): recital and keynote
Edward Klorman (music theory and viola)
Barbara Lüneburg (violin and artistic research)
…

Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Saturday, April 3, 2027

Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting

Annual meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State. A Call for Proposals will be announced in Fall 2026.

Deadline: Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

Music and the Extended Mind: A Conference on Musical Intelligence in the 21st Century

Florida State University’s College of Music and the 21st Century Music Practice network (C21MP) invites submissions that explore the radical developments in musical thinking and activity emerging in our contemporary landscape. Under the overarching theme of Musical Intelligence, we examine what…

Deadline: Tuesday, July 7, 2026