Read and share the Society for Music Analysis’ open letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, written in response to the threat of closure to the University’s Music Department and suspension of recruitment to its programmes (10th November 2025).
Analysis: Now and in the Future
Analysis: Now and in the Future Wednesday 22 October 2925, 11am GMT Location: Microsoft Teams Meeting Link: SMA Panel 2 | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams Meeting ID: 321 263 510 493 0 Passcode: gU2MP2ja In 2023, the SMA published a report on the representation of music analysis in UK undergraduate curricula (Donn and Pace 2023). The report […]
SMA Online Panel – Analysis: Then and Now
📅 Monday 2nd June, 2pm 📍 Location: Online Meeting ID: 898 5051 1285Passcode: 9z5ss7 In 2023, the SMA published a report on the representation of music analysis in UK undergraduate curricula (Donn and Pace 2023). The report examined the analysis provision available on undergraduate programmes in each of the four UK regions as well as […]
McrMAC Study Day 2025 with the SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group (FTSG)
📍 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, […]
SMA Zoom Colloquium: Johanna Frymoyer
Johanna Frymoyer (University of Notre Dame) Modernist Movements: A Book Talk SMA Zoom Colloquium, 27 February 2025, 6.00-8.00pm GMT Meeting ID: 990 9618 5672 Passcode: 707021 Abstract: Modernist Movements: Listening for Topics in Schoenberg and Stravinsky (forthcoming spring 2025, Oxford University Press, Studies in Music Theory) is the first single-author, monograph-length study of topic theory […]
SMA Zoom Colloquium: René Rusch
René Rusch (University of Michigan) ‘Schubert’s Enharmonicism Revisited’ SMA Zoom Colloquium, Thursday 3 April 2025, 6.00-8.00pm BST Meeting ID: 917 3694 9866 Passcode: 447629 Abstract: How might have Schubert conceived of enharmonicism during the dawn of quasi-equal and equal temperaments in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century musical keyboard practice? This presentation proposes that, while these […]
SMA Statement on the threat of closure to Cardiff University’s School of Music
Read and share the Society for Music Analysis’ open letter to the Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University, Professor Wendy Larner, written in response to the threat of closure to the university’s School of Music (4 February 2025).
Third Online Book Symposium of the Schubert Research Centre
Tuesday 11 February, 5pm M.E.Z.; 4pm GMT Free online access via Zoom Look out for the Zoom link and further information on the Schubert Research Centre’s website: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/kis/activities/book-symposia Book: Anne M. Hyland, Schubert’s String Quartets: The Teleology of Lyric Form (Cambridge: CUP, 2023).Commentators: Steven Vande Moortele, Markus BöggemannModerator: Lorraine Byrne Bodley The symposium will focus […]
SMA Zoom Colloquium: Peter Asimov
This paper is conceived around an unanticipated analytical breakthrough in a work scholars tend to think we know well: Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Mode de valeurs et d’intensités’ (1949), the second of his four Études de rythme and a longstanding staple of the twentieth-century history and analysis curriculum due to its role as a launchpad for ‘total serialism’.
SMT Conference Proposal Workshop
The Society for Music Analysis is pleased to announce an online workshop on Thursday, January 16 at 6:30 PM GMT (1:30 PM EST). This workshop will focus on the process of writing and submitting a proposal for the Society for Music Theory’s annual conference, with a particular focus on cross-cultural and disciplinary expectations surrounding music theory. This event also reflects increased collaboration between the SMA and SMT, further cultivating music theory’s international landscape.