Category: Study Groups

Call for Proposals: Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song   June 5–7, 2025, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada   Timbre and orchestration are essential aspects of musical experience in any culture or style. They enable us to effortlessly identify different genres of music and are particularly important in popular musics. This centrality is reflected in Timbre […]

The Society for Music Analysis’s Formal Theory Study Group, in collaboration with the University of Toronto’s Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music, is pleased to announce an online study day, ‘Beyond Corpus Study’, occurring on Friday November 29. Framed as a response to Nathan Martin’s recent article “Corpus Studies and ‘Close Listening’”, this day […]

The following is a draft programme (updated 25 June 2024) and is subject to change. Further information about the summit can be found here. Monday 8 July 08:30      Registration and tea, coffee and refreshments 09:15      Welcome by Professor Deborah Prentice (Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge) 09:30      Roundtable 1: International perspectives on Western art music literacy Provocation: […]

This symposium features papers from leading scholars who have been at the forefront of popular music theory and analysis since its inception in the 90s. Contributors include: Matt BaileyShea, Alyssa Barna, Nicole Biamonte, John Covach, Stephanie Doktor, Walt Everett,Allan Moore, and Mark Spicer.* The event is sponsored by the Institutes of Popular Music of both […]

8th – 10th July 2024, University of Liverpool, IPM-IPM-SMA The Institutes of Popular Music of both Rochester and Liverpool, together with the Society for Music Analysis, are pleased to announce their third Summer School dedicated to popular music theory and analysis. Set in the vibrant city of Liverpool, UK, the course will be held on […]

Once Again, Schenkerian Semiotics SMA Zoom Colloquium, 4 April 2024, 6:30pm BST 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 […]

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 […]

‘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 St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge 8–9 July 2024 SpeakersProgrammeRegistrationTravel and accommodationSponsorshipCall for papers and participantsOrganising CommitteeContact The First Summit on Music Literacy aims to bring together the widest possible range of people involved in the teaching, performance and study of music today, and to have an open and robust […]

The Society for Music Analysis has signed a letter along with the Royal Musical Association, MusicHE, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, UK and Ireland, addressed to the leadership of Oxford Brookes University on the closure of its music department. The full text of the letter […]