Nicolas Meeùs (Paris-Sorbonne)

Once Again, Schenkerian Semiotics SMA Zoom Colloquium, 4 April 2024, 6:30pm GMT Join Zoom Meeting: https://citylit.zoom.us/j/91393927600 [citylit.zoom.us]Meeting ID: 913 9392 7600Passcode: 574347 Abstract Although the importance of a Schenkerian semiotics has been noted more than forty years ago (Jonathan Dunsby and John Stopford, 1981), and although the importance of Schenkerian analysis for a semiotic approach […]

Opera North’s ‘Orpheus’: Significance, Legacy, Futures – A Symposium

One day in-person symposium 9:30-4:30pm, Friday 22 March 2024 University of Newcastle Armstrong Building (Room G.08), Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU Call for participants We invite music and theatre researchers, professional performers, and representatives of the cultural sector to join an all-day symposium exploring Opera North’s ground-breaking production of Orpheus (2022). The […]

Caitlin Martinkus (Cleveland Institute of Music)

‘Revisiting Expectations for the Opening Ritornello in Louis Spohr’s Violin Concerti’ SMA Zoom Colloquium, 8 February 2024, 6:30pm GMT Please use the following Zoom link:  https://citylit.zoom.us/j/95549497846 [citylit.zoom.us] Meeting ID: 955 4949 7846 Passcode: 526057 Abstract: As the number of composers studied by scholars of the New Formenlehre expands, interest in other formal genres is likewise […]

First Summit on Music Literacy

First Summit on Music Literacy St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge 8–9 July 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPANTS The Society for Music Analysis is convening a two-day summit on music literacy at the University of Cambridge in July 2024. The summit has three goals: To create a forum for research on music literacy from […]

‘Periodicity and Continuity in Pitch and Time’

SMA Zoom Colloquium, 6 December 2023, 6:30pm GMT Please use the following Zoom link: https://citylit.zoom.us/j/94867721639 [citylit.zoom.us] Meeting ID: 948 6772 1639 Passcode: 193857 Abstract Music theorists tend to segregate theories that operate on discrete objects, such as traditional metrical theory and pitch-class set theory, from theories of tuning, microtiming, etc., that require continuous spaces. I […]

Jonathan De Souza

‘Musical Texture, Ensemble Coordination, and Social Network Analysis’ SMA Zoom Colloquium, 2 November 2023, 6:30pm GMT Please use the following Zoom link: https://citylit.zoom.us/j/2388146793 [citylit.zoom.us]  Meeting ID: 2388146793 Passcode: 781335 Abstract Research on musical texture often takes a listener’s perspective: it shows how simultaneous parts are grouped according to principles of auditory perceptual organization. Performers in a […]

Analysing Music Through Discrete Fourier Transform, Society for Music Analysis Postgraduate Workshop

Society for Music Analysis Postgraduate Workshop, Royal College of Music, 28 October 2023, 11am-4pm. Workshop Leaders: Oliver Chandler & Isabella Thorneycroft Imagine drinking a dram of whiskey. One might be vaguely aware of ‘notes’ of various kinds, while being unable to distinguish them precisely from one another, or to put a name to them. A […]

Job Vacancy: Administrator of Society for Music Analysis

Call for Applications The Society for Music Analysis seeks to appoint to the post of Administrator. The role description below outlines the main responsibilities of the administrator to the Society for Music Analysis. The Administrator is also required to take some additional responsibilities for the Society’s flagship journal Music Analysis published by Wiley (see below). Please see our website https://www.sma.ac.uk [sma.ac.uk] for information about […]