The SMA is proud to launch its new Zoom Colloquium series. Each session will be held on Zoom at 6:30pm UK Time.
Please always check back here for the zoom link as we update before each event.
2023-24 Season
SMA Zoom Colloquium, 23/24 Academic Year
2 November 2023: Jonathan De Souza (University of Western Ontario)
‘Musical Texture, Ensemble Coordination, and Social Network Analysis’
6 December 2023: Jason Yust (Boston University)
‘Periodicity and Continuity in Pitch and Time’
8 February 2024: Caitlin Martinkus (Cleveland Institute of Music)
Title TBC
6 March 2024: Annika Forkert (RNCM)
‘LIZ LUTYENS, BRICOLEUR’
4 April 2024: Nicolas Meeùs (Paris-Sorbonne)
‘Once Again, Schenkerian Semiotics’
2 May 2024: Robert Gjerdingen (Northwestern)
‘Harmony in a Cold Climate: Class and Classrooms in Music Theory’
6 June 2024: Rachel Gain (Yale)
Title TBC (general themes: rhythm tap dance as a percussive art form; syntax and the body).
2023 Season
2rd February 2023: Dr Thomas Husted Kirkegaard (University of Copenhagen)
“Not Another Paper on Harmonic Function!”
2rd March 2023: Dr Jennifer Harding (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
“Harmony of Score and Stage: Analytical Insights through the Discrete Fourier Transform.”
April 6th 2023: Dr José Oliveira Martins (Universidade de Coimbra)
“Harmonic imagination and register relations in twentieth-century music: altered octaves and the modelling of pitch-space qualities.”
May 4th 2023: Profs. Marina Mezzina (Conservatorio di Musica in Salerno) & Catello Gallotti (Martucci Conservatory of Music, Salerno, Italy)
Journeys through Romantic Music: Towards an Expressive Approach to Musical Structure
June 1st 2023 (6.30pm ! UK)
GmTH/SMA Roundtable on Music Theory in pre-University Education
June 29th 2023: Dr John Koslovsky (Conservatorium van Amsterdam / Utrecht University)
Structural Fantasies and Variations: A Salzerian Perspective
2022 Season
3rd February 2022: Dr Sebastian Wedler (University of Oxford)
“Rethinking Late Webern” (click for abstract)
[Not streamed on Youtube; Zoom only]
31st March 2022: Prof Kofi Agawu (CUNY)
Music Studies in Crisis? Notes and Queries on Reframing Music Theory (click for abstract)
7th April 2022: Prof Nicole Biamonte (McGill)
“Current Issues in Popular-Music Analysis”
5th May 2022: Dr Nancy Murphy (Assistant Professor, Houston)
“Times-A-Changin’: Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter music”
9th June 2022: Dr Cecilia Oinas (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki)
“Together in Performance: Examining (the) Pitch-Based Bonding in Ensemble Playing”
7th July 2022: Prof Joseph Straus (CUNY)
“Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability”