At each annual meeting, Graduate Student Workshops emphasize instruction, participation, and discussion among graduate students. Information on past workshops is given below.
| Year | Workshop Title | Leader | Leader's Institution | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Global Music Theory (as an Insurgent Practice) | Chris Stover | Griffith University | 
| 2024 | Music Psychology and the Ideas of Ernst Kurth | Daphne Tan | University of Toronto | 
| 2023 | Feminist Analysis | Rachel Lumsden | Florida State University | 
| 2023 | Marxism, Music Studies, and Hermeneutics | Sumanth Gopinath | University of Minnesota | 
| 2022 | Analyzing Hip-Hop through the Music of Daniel Dumile | Kyle Adams | Indiana University | 
| 2022 | Intersections of Music Cognition and Music Theory Pedagogy | Nancy Rogers | Florida State University | 
| 2021 | Deferred until 2022 due to COVID-19 | ||
| 2020 | Analysis of Music and the Musicalized Moving Image | Anna Gawboy | The Ohio State University | 
| 2020 | Theorizing Categorically: Film Music and Beyond | Scott Murphy | University of Kansas | 
| 2019 | Computer Programming for Corpus Analysis | Michael Cuthbert | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
| 2019 | Twentieth-century Music in Analysis and Performance: Contexts and Experiments | Daphne Leong | University of Colorado | 
| 2018 | Issues in Popular-Music Analysis | Nicole Biamonte | McGill University | 
| 2018 | Code Shifting, Chromaticsm, and Modality | Dmitri Tymoczko | Princeton University | 
| 2017 | Music-Listener Intersubjectivity | Marion Guck | University of Michigan | 
| 2017 | The Craft of Musical Analysis | Frank Samarotto | Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University | 
| 2016 | Meter and Form in 19th-Century Music | Richard Cohn | Yale University | 
| 2016 | Topics, Phrase Structure, and Sonata Form in Haydn's Chamber Music | Danuta Mirka | University of Southampton | 
| 2015 | Schubert’s Modulatory Practice and the History of Tonal Coherence | Suzannah Clark | Harvard University | 
| 2015 | Cognitive Science Meets the Orphans | Robert Gjerdingen | Northwestern University | 
| 2014 | Exploring Pitch Memory and Melody Perception: Empirical Approaches | Elizabeth West Marvin | Eastman School of Music | 
| 2014 | Finding Narratives in Formal Analysis of Popular Music | Jocelyn Neal | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 
| 2014 | Renaissance Instrumental Music | Peter Schubert | McGill University | 
| 2013 | The Idea of Musical Form as Process, from Analytic and Performance Perspectives | Janet Schmalfeldt | Tufts University | 
| 2013 | What is Metric Well Formedness? | Justin London | Carleton College | 
| 2012 | Harmony and Voice Leading in Rock and Pop Music | Walt Everett | University of Michigan | 
| 2012 | A Corpus-Based Approach to Tonal Theory | Ian Quinn | Yale University | 
| 2011 | Exploring Musical Spaces | Julian Hook | Indiana University | 
| 2010 | Stravinsky | Gretchen Horlacher | Indiana University | 
| 2010 | Musical Narrative | Michael Klein | Temple University | 
| 2009 | Music Pedagogy | Brian Alegant | Oberlin College | 
| 2009 | Schenkerian Analysis | Poundie Burstein | City University of New York | 
| 2008 | Musical Meaning in Beethoven | Robert Hatten | Indiana University | 
| 2008 | Analyzing Contemporary Music | John Roeder | University of British Columbia | 
| 2007 | Sonata Theory | James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy | Yale University and Oberlin College | 
| 2007 | Analyzing Early Music | Cristle Collins Judd | Bowdoin College | 
| 2006 | Voice Leading in Atonal Music | Joseph Straus | City University of New York |