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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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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“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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Eleventh International New Beethoven Research Conference (NBR 11)
MInneapolisThe Eleventh International New Beethoven Research Conference (NBR 11) will take place Wednesday, November 5 and Thursday morning, November 6, in Minneapolis, prior to the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. We are seeking proposals concerning new…
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Pierre Boulez Centenary in Cleveland
Cleveland, OhioContributors submitting papers on any topics concerning Boulez are invited. While papers on sketch studies and score analyses are welcomed, we are especially interested in receiving proposals with historical and socio-cultural approaches shedding light, in a broader sense, on "Boulez in…
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Pierre Boulez Centenary in Cleveland
ClevelandScholarly Conference: "Boulez in America"
Call for Paper deadline extended to July 15, 2025.
We invite proposals for a 20-minute conference paper. Apart from paper presentations, we also encourage the submissions of proposals for 30-minute lecture recitals. Abstracts…
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Berio: labirinti in musica - Berio: labyrinths in music
Milan Conservatory of Music, Milan, ItalyThe Conservatory of Music of Milan is pleased to announce the international conference Berio: labirinti in musica - Berio: labyrinths in music, to be held in Milan, Italy, on 21-22 November 2025.
On the centenary of Luciano Berio’s birth we invite scholars, researchers, and musicians to…
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#uncancel culture International Interdisciplinary Conference
Kraków, Poland#Uncancel culture
A Culture of Inclusion Versus a Culture of Exclusion.
The Work - the Function. Creator - Audience
International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference,
4-6 December 2025
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#Uncancel culture. A Culture of Inclusion Versus a Culture of Exclusion. The Work – the Function. Creator – Audience
Krakow, PolandYou are cordially invited to take part in the International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference, bringing together artistic circles from many fields of art. The problem posed in the title of the conference is intended as an impulse for a possibly broad discussion on the notion that has been…
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National Opera Association (NOA) Conference
Boston, MAEmbrace the spirit of resilience as we convene in Boston for the National Opera Association (NOA) Conference, commemorating our 70th anniversary amidst the city’s indomitable energy and diverse cultural tapestry.
The theme of this conference, "Bold Voices, Boundless Futures,"…
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"Clown(s)"
Montreal, QC, CanadaThe conference "Clown(s)" (https://creationopera.ca/en/evenements/clown-s/) will take place in Montreal from February 5 to 7, 2026, bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners to reflect on the languages and non-…
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Modality in French Music at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université and the Bibliothèque La Grange-Fleuret, Paris, FranceWe are delighted to announce the second edition of the international colloquium Modality in French Music at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, which will be held on 26–28 March 2026 in Paris, at the Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université and the Bibliothèque La Grange-Fleuret.
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MTSNYS 2026
Vassar CollegeThe Music Theory Society of New York State will hold its 2026 annual meeting on April 11 and 12 on the campus of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. A call for papers will be announce in early fall 2026. See MTSNYS.org for more details.