The Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory is pleased to announce our 2026 Annual Meeting, which will take place March 27-28, 2026 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. This will be a joint meeting with the Rocky Mountain chapter of the American Musicological Society.
We are soliciting proposals on any topic related to music theory, analysis, or music theory pedagogy. Proposals may be for any of the following formats:
Paper (20 minutes)
Special session on a single topic (three 20-minute papers)
Roundtable discussion (90 minutes)
The guidelines for proposals are as follows:
Authors should submit a PDF proposal of no more than 500 words, including any footnotes or endnotes.
A special session proposal may submit 3 500-word proposals combined into one document, delineated with appropriate titles.
A maximum of four pages of supplementary materials (such as musical examples, diagrams, and selected bibliography) may be appended; these pages will not be counted within the 500-word limit.
The proposal must include the title of the paper but exclude the author’s name and any other identifying information. Authors are responsible to ensure that metadata also does not include identifying information.
250-word abstracts will be requested for accepted proposals at a later date.
Proposals should be submitted at the following link no later than Friday, January 9, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. MST: https://forms.gle/dUPoTrcrxZdMsMSX7
There will be an award for the best student paper presented at the conference. Students who wish to be considered should declare their interest on the form above and will be asked to submit a PDF file of the complete paper (with graphics and/or other supporting materials) by Friday, March 6, 2026.
Additional information about conference format and registration will be posted at https://arts.unco.edu/music/rocky-mountain-society-music-theory/ in January 2026.