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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Research Retreat in Memory of David Huron
Northwestern University, Evanston, ILWe are pleased to announce a research retreat in partnership with the Society for Music Perception and Cognition and Northwestern University, in memory of David Huron. The retreat will combine sessions on empirical research methodology with a project-based hackathon. The hackathon will put into…
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SMT Travel Grants - International
Theorists who reside outside the United States and Canada are invited to apply.
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Rhythmologies: Thinking, Analysing and Embodying Musical Time
Chania, Crete (Greece)I am pleased to share the call for applications for the international thematic school “Rhythmologies: Thinking, Analysing and Embodying Musical Time”, organised within the framework of Festum π, an international festival dedicated to the relationships between music and mathematics.
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CFP, Edited Volume: Sounds Without Borders: New Music, Hybrid Languages and the Futures of Listening
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This collection offers a wide-ranging examination of new music through the lens of cultural hybridity and global sonic exchange, bringing together scholars working across musicology, ethnomusicology, composition, performance studies, and cultural theory. By examining…
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CFP: “Music, Sound, and Domestic Spaces”
We are seeking contributions for an edited volume on “Music, Sound, and Domestic Spaces.”
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Edited Volume - Sound in Practice: Teaching, Thinking, and Collaborating
Sound in Practice: Teaching, Thinking, and Collaborating
Dr. William O’Hara and Dr. César Leal, eds.
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Call for Submissions: Black Music, in Theory
Call for Submissions, Black Music, in Theory
We are pleased to announce a call for submissions to Black Music, in Theory, an open-access peer-reviewed online journal of University of Michigan Journals.
BMiT highlights Black and African American perspectives on music and music…
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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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SMT Travel Grants - Family Care, Accessibility, IUU, Many Voices
The SMT provides funding to the annual meeting for eligible attendees.
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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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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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