📍 G16, Ground Floor, Martin Harris Centre of Music and Drama, University of Manchester
📅 Sunday 13 July 2025
The Formal Theory Study Group (FTSG) invites all formal theorists to attend a study day and Formal Dialogues panel on musical form. These will take place on Sunday July 13 2025 at the University of Manchester, immediately before the Society for Music Analysis’s annual Music Analysis Conference (McrMAC) on July 14–16, and feature the conference’s two keynote speakers.
Registration for the study day has now closed but the Formal Dialogues panel is free and open to all without registration.
Please email admin@formenlehre.co.uk if you have any enquiries.
The day will involve two components:
Student Study Day Workshops
Two workshops for postgraduate students and early career scholars will be hosted by Robert Gjerdingen and Lauri Suurpää. Gjerdingen’s session involves a small corpus study of the 115 solfeggi by Cotumacc, while Suurpää’s addresses internal phrase expansions in Haydn’s String Quartet expositions. Preparatory material will be distributed beforehand. There will be a break for lunch between 1.30 and 2.30pm.
Formal Dialogues V: Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony
In collaboration with the Manchester Music Theory & Analysis Reading Group, an analytical session on the first movement of Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony, led by Sarah Moynihan, with Kelvin Lee, Julian Horton, Christopher Tarrant, Benedict Taylor, and Steven Vande Moortele. A PDF of the score with bar numbers can be found here. It is not necessary to register to attend the panel; please just turn up on the day.
Schedule
12.00-1.30pm Student Study Day Workshop 1
1.30-2.45pm Lunch break (attendees to make their own arrangements)
2.45-4.15pm Student Study Day Workshop 2
4.15-4.30pm Short break with refreshments (Soft drinks and cakes)
4.30-6.30pm Formal Dialogues V: Sibelius’s Sixth Symphony (score attached above)
