Noah Kahrs, Indiana University (Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group), Chair

Yiyi Gao, University of North Texas (Improvisation Interest Group), Virtual Chair

Andrew Malilay White, University of Chicago (Improvisation Interest Group)

Gui Hwan Lee, James Madison University (Post-194…[Read more]

Date: November 7

Time: 12:30–2

Place: Lakeshore B

Noah Kahrs, Indiana University (Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group), Chair
Yiyi Gao, University of North Texas (Improvisation Interest Group), Virtual Chair
Andrew Malilay White, University of C…[Read more]

We're looking forward to our joint meeting with the Improvisation Interest Group this year at SMT. As a reminder, our meeting is on Friday (November 7) in the 12:30pm-2:00pm timeslot. We will announce the program relatively soon.

Gui Hwan and I are at the ends of our two-year terms, so we are heading into an election process for new…[Read more]

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN (Friday, 07/Nov/2025: 12:30pm - 2…[Read more]

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper p…[Read more]

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper p…[Read more]

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper proposals o…[Read more]

In 2025, Anthony Braxton’s 80th birthday year, the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and the Improvisation Interest Group will hold a joint meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, MN. We invite paper proposals on the t…[Read more]

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three…[Read more]

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three years.…[Read more]

The SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is now accepting nominations of published articles or book chapters for its annual Publication Award. Please consider nominating recent work in the field from the past three years. Self-nominations are welcome.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published…[Read more]

We had one nomination for webmaster: Ryan Jones, current PhD student at Eastman. The election is now open, you may vote during the next two weeks.

The election is via an anonymous Google Form: https://forms.gle/mWV9zxQA5uz6H5Yq6

Hope everyone's having a nice end to their semester,

Noah

With apologies for this process being delayed by 2 weeks, I'm writing to open up nominations for the webmaster position for SMT's Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group. I've been in this role for the past 5 years, and feel about ready to pass the torch.

The website (smtpost1945musicanalysisinterestgroup.hcommons.org) is run through…[Read more]

Antares (Tara) Boyle, Portland State University.  “Gestural Temporality in Sciarrino's Recitativo oscuro” (Music Theory Online 29, no. 4 (2023))

Also, we are happy to share the original announcement by Landon Morr…[Read more]

For this year's meeting at SMT in Jacksonville, the Global Interculturalism
and Musical Peripheries Interest Group and Post-1945 Music Analysis
Interest Group invite submission of abstracts for lightning talks that
interest both groups? memberships. We will b…[Read more]

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2021…[Read more]

Dear scholars of post-1945 music,

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2021…[Read more]

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2021 and December 2023 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

Please join me in welcoming and congratulating our new Co-Chairs for the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group, Noah Kahrs and Gui Hwan Lee! They have passed the confirmation vote and will be taking over day-to-day operations in the coming weeks, so feel free to reach out to them if you have any questions or ideas.

It has been a…[Read more]

It has now been a couple months since our meeting in Denver. It was wonderful to see everyone and enjoy some thought-provoking scholarship presented by Kate Mancey, Noah Kahrs, and Jennifer Iverson. Thanks to all of those who presented and all those who attended!

We also announced the two winners of the Post-1945 Music Analysis…[Read more]

This serves as the final reminder that our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10, in the “Silver” meeting room. We will be hosting an exciting session on electronic and synthesized sound. Jennifer Iverson will give a featured talk on the topic of her current book pro…[Read more]

I'm very much looking forward to seeing all of you in Denver for our meeting! As previously announced, our planned session (Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound) will include presentations by Kate Mancey, Noah Kahrs, and Jennifer Iverson. I hope you are all as excited as I am about these presentations, which will take place on…[Read more]

We are excited to invite all of you to our upcoming Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group meeting at the SMT Annual Meeting in Denver this November! The meeting is scheduled for 12:30 PM on Friday, November 10. For this year’s meetup, we will be hosting a planned session: Considering Electronic and Synthesized Sound.

We are t…[Read more]

• “Combination Tones and Ring Models of Frequency” Noah Kahrs (Eastman School of Music)

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We invite volunteers to present both informal “research updates” (5–10…[Read more]

We invite volunteers to present both informal “research updates” (5–10 minutes) and more formal “lightning talks” (10–15 minutes) that engage with the topic “Mathem…[Read more]

Computer  — Assisted Composition Perspectives on human–machine interaction (organized by Laura Zattra, Giacomo Albert, and Gianmario Borio…[Read more]

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2020 and December 2022 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

Jordan Lenchitz and I are thinking of organizing a special session on "Listening to Microtonality" for the 2023 AMS/SMT in Denver. If you'd like to be involved, send me an email (nkahrs@u.rochester.edu) and we'll go from there.

Best,

Noah

For those of you that missed the announcement at our recent business meeting during the conference, please join me in congratulating the winner of the 2022 Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award, Jocelyn Ho!

Please see below for the full announcement from the award…[Read more]

I hope this announcement will be of particular interest to the post-1945 interest group.

The Eastman School of Music invites applications for the tenth edition of its summer study-abroad program in Paris (https://summer.esm.rochester.edu/course/paris/), offered in conjunction with IRCAM's ManiFeste-2023 festival of contemporary music…[Read more]

The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group has a couple exciting activities at this year’s annual meeting, and we hope that you will attend and support the authors and organizers that have been working to put things together.

The interest group is sponsoring a special session that will take place on Saturday morning of the c…[Read more]

This is a brief message to ask you about two things. First, as you may have seen recently from SMT-Announce, the society is soliciting volunteers to video-record conference sessions and interest group meetings. We need a volunteer to record our meeting (early Saturday afternoon). If you are able to…[Read more]

The SMT Post-1945 Music Interest Group will celebrate the centenary of Iannis Xenakis at SMT New Orleans (November 10-13, 2022). We invite 250-word abstracts for lightning talks that explore topics related to all things by or about Xenakis, including his compositions, designs, notation,…[Read more]

Please consider submitting your published articles or book chapters for consideration for the SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award.

Any peer-reviewed article or book chapter published between January 2019 and December 2021 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]