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CFP: Analytical Approaches to World Musics (AAWM 2026), Durham University, UK
Durham University, UKAAWM 2026 welcomes submissions that examine the world’s musical traditions from any analytical or theoretical angle, including (but not limited to) ethnographic, historical, formal, computational, and cognitive perspectives.
Submission formats include papers, special sessions, lecture-…
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Dublin Music Analysis Conference (DubMAC 2026)
Trinity College Dublin and the Royal Irish Academy of MusicThe DubMAC 2026 programme committee welcomes submissions in any aspect of music analysis and theory, relating to music of any genre, geographical region, and historical period.
We also particularly welcome proposals on:
The New Formenlehre
Practice-As-Research
Eco-Music…
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SMA Formal Theory Study Group - Study Day
Trinity College, DublinThe SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group is pleased to announce its annual study day, to be held on Thursday, July 16 2026 at Trinity College Dublin immediately after the annual conference, DubMAC. The study day will feature an analytical roundtable on Balakirev’s First Symphony alongside workshops…
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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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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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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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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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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.