Formal Theory Study Group DubMAC Study Day July 16 2026, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Long Room Hub The SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group is pleased to announce its annual study day, to be held on Thursday, July 16 2026 at Trinity College Dublin immediately after the annual conference, DubMAC. The study day will feature an […]
Formal Theory Study Group Events 2025/26 (3)
New Formenlehre in Germanic Musicology and Music Theory26 February 2026, 5pm GMT/6pm CET Formenlehre has experienced a revival in Anglo-American music theory. Building on the core of Hepokoski and Darcy’s Elements of Sonata Theory and Caplin’s Classical Form, the ‘new Formenlehre’ has since expanded to include Romantic form, corpus studies, and (post-)canonical research. This Anglo-American […]
Formal Theory Study Group Events 2025/26 (2)
Diachrony and Musical Analysis2 December 2025, 4:30pm GMT The SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group is pleased to announce the online panel “Diachrony and Musical Analysis”, taking place on Tuesday, December 2 at 4:30pm GMT. While the new Formenlehre was sparked by re-examinations of the formal practices of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven in the work of […]
Formal Theory Study Group Events 2025/26 (1)
Formal Theory in Ethnomusicology30 October 2025, 3pm GMT The SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group is pleased to announce the online panel “Formal Theory in Ethnomusicology”, taking place on Thursday October 30, 3pm GMT. Whereas discourse about musical form is most typically associated with Western art music from the common practice period (i.e. the “new Formenlehre”), […]