SMA Annual Conferences (MACs)
Programmes from previous Music Analysis Conferences (MACs) can be found below.
McrMAC 2025, University of Manchester and Royal Northern College of Music
EdMAC 2024, University of Edinburgh
OxMAC 2023, University of Oxford
NewMAC 2022, Newcastle University
BrumMAC 2021, University of Birmingham
SotonMAC 2019, University of Southampton
CityMAC 2018, City, University of London
Graduate Conferences & Summer Schools
The Society for Music Analysis hosts a variety of student summer schools, workshops, and graduate conferences in the UK, including the Theory and Analysis Graduate Student Conference (TAGS) in April every year.
Theory and Analysis Graduate Conferences (TAGS)
RHTAGS 2025, Royal Holloway, University of London, 30 April-1 May 2025
OxTAGS 2024, University of Oxford, 17-18 April 2024
TAGS 2023, University of Liverpool, 13-14 April 2023
TAGS 2021 & Workshop on Neo-Riemannian Analysis, City, University of London
TAGS 2019, University of Edinburgh
TAGS 2018, Durham University
Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer Schools
Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School 4 (IPM-IPM-SMA), Liverpool, 17-19 July 2025
Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School 3, Liverpool, 8-10 July 2024
Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School 2 (IPM-IPM-SMA), Liverpool, 29-31 August 2023
Popular Music Theory & Analysis Summer School 1 (IPM-IPM-SMA), Liverpool, 2022
Other SMA Events
SMA – SMT Conference Proposal Workshop 22 January 2026
Diachrony and Musical Analysis, 2 December 2025
Formal Theory in Ethnomusicology, online event 30 October 2025
SMA Online Panel – Analysis: Now and in the Future, 22 October 2025
Formal Theory Study Group: Study Day 2025 (McrMAC) and Formal Dialogues V, University of Manchester
SMA Online Panel – Analysis: Then and Now, 2 June 2025
‘Music Analysis and Musical Subjectivity’, the SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group with the RMA’s Music Philosophy Study Group (In Conversation series), 26 March 2025
Society for Music Theory Conference Proposal Workshop, 16 January 2025
Online Study Day: ‘Beyond Corpus Study’, 29 November 2024. Organised by the SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Music, University of Toronto
Online Panel Discussion: What does it mean to do a PhD in Music Theory and Analysis in the UK today? 17 October 2024
First Summit on Music Literacy, University of Cambridge, 8-9 July 2024 (affiliated with the SMA)
Formal Theory Study Group: Study Day 2024 (EdMAC), University of Edinburgh, 30 June 2024
Opera North’s ‘Orpheus’: Significance, Legacy, Futures – A Symposium, University of Newcastle, 22 March 2024
‘Analysing Music Through Discrete Fourier Transform’, Society for Music Analysis Postgraduate Workshop, Royal College of Music, 2023
SMA Postgraduate Writing Club, Online, 14 June 2023
Women at the Piano, 1848–1970, University of California, Irvine, 17–19 March 2023.
Scriabin @ 150, Reading UK, September 24th-25th, 2022.
Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music, (Virtual), 2022
Teaching Music Theory in the Digital Age, Virtual Study Day, 2021
COVID-19 and Music Analysis: Impacts, Progression and Prospects, Virtual Workshop, 2020