Roundtable brainstorming at TAGS 2013

Roundtable brainstorming at TAGS 2013

Welcome to the SMA website!

The Society for Music Analysis (SMA) is a UK-based international organisation dedicated to music theory and analysis. We are affiliated with the journal Music Analysis and support and organise a regular programme of events, including the annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students (TAGS) Conference, the Music Analysis Summer School (a residential course taught by international experts), and other Music Analysis Conferences (‘MACs’) and symposia.

The SMA welcomes interests in all musical repertoires and cultures and promotes music theory and analysis in the broadest sense, including formal and critical theory, aesthetics, semiotics, music psychology, cognitive science, music technology and many other subdisciplines and interdisciplines.

If you have a passion for finding out how music works, and what it means, then the SMA is for you. We look forward to welcoming you to the next SMA event. See the Join page to become an SMA member.

Forthcoming Events

  • Rethinking Poulenc, 50 Years On

    Keele University (supported by the SMA), 21-23 June 2013

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  • RMA Postgraduate Study Day

    Saturday 22 June 2013, Keele University

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  • Analyzing Popular Music, Liverpool 2-4 July 2013

    An International Conference on Analyzing Popular Music will take place at Liverpool, 2-4 July 2013.

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  • Latest News

  • SMA Postgraduate Writing Club, Second Meeting

    Saturday 27th April, University of Manchester, hosted by Laura Tunbridge

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  • New Student Representative: Steph Jones

    Steph Jones elected Student Representative.

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  • Pictures from TAGS 2013

    Pictures from TAGS 2013 taken (mostly) by Shay Loya. Click on any thumbnail to see the full picture.

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