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The April 2020 newsletter is available online: If you would like to respond to any of the items featured in the newsletter, make suggestions for the next issue, or draw attention to any errors in the electronic version, please write to information@sma.ac.uk.

Department of Music, City University Saturday 25and Sunday 26April 2020 NB Owing to the coronavirus, this study day is now POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Deadline for proposals: 15 March 2020 Keynote Speaker: Michiel Schuijer Student travel bursaries available. The SMA’s annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students (TAGS) Conference will be hosted by the Department of […]

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 […]

The SMA’S next PGR writing club has been organised for the Saturday 29th February 2020, at Senate House. Dr. Rebecca Day will be chairing the session.  The writing club is an informal meeting open to the SMA’s postgraduate members, in which we share and discuss each another’s writing in a supportive environment. As many of us are working within […]

The Society for Music Analysis seeks to appoint to the post of Critical Forum Editor of its journal Music Analysis. Music Analysis is one of the world’s leading peer-reviewed publications in the fields of music theory and analysis. It welcomes contributions on a wide diversity of topics, including all aspects of music theory, analyses of individual works, and […]

Call for papers: International Conference on Musical Form30 June–1 July 2020, Copthorne Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne NB Owing to the coronavirus, this conference is now POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Organised by the Society for Music Analysis Formal Theory Study Group (FTSG), in association with the Department of Music, Durham UniversitySupported by North-Eastern Music Analysis Collective […]

The Society for Music Analysis has two postgraduate StudentRepresentatives. One of these positions is now due for election. Our Student Representatives help the committee discover what sort ofworkshops, seminars and conferences are of interest to emerging scholars,and take a lead role in organising and developing our programme of studentevents. Student Representatives are expected to attend […]

10th European Music Analysis Congress (EUROMAC10) at Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory,September 21-26, 2020.The deadline for submissions of abstracts: December 15, 2019Analysis, Theory, and History of Music: and/or/vs RelationshipThe relation between the domains of music scholarship remains a complex one. The formulation of the abstract principles of theory often comes in contrast with the practical aspects of […]

Dear all,  We would like to invite you to the SMA workshop on 16 November 2019, at City, University of London. Based on the theme, “Analysis and Performance”, this workshop will be led by Dr. Ian Pace.  This workshop is a free event open to all SMA student members. Student (undergraduate and postgraduate) members and […]

30 June–1 July 2020, Copthorne Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne Organised by the Society for Music Analysis Formal Theory Study Group (FTSG), in association with the Department of Music, Durham University Supported by North-Eastern Music Analysis Collective Keynote Speakers: Prof Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University), Dr Steven Vande Moortele (University of Toronto) The Society for Music Analysis […]