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]

Since first appearing as a stylistic outgrowth of the D.C. hardcore scene, emo has expanded across the world and to every corner of the internet. Like the genre’s often pubescent audience, this emergence has come with its own g…[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]

The flow of the text
Consistency across chapters
Gaps in the…[Read more]

The SMT Jazz Interest Group Solicits nominations for the 2025 Award for Excellence in Jazz Scholarship. This award acknowleges outstanding contributions to the field of jazz theory and analysis. Eligibility extends to books, book chapters, articles, delivered conference papers, dissertations,…[Read more]

The idea of being modern is often intertwined with the tenet of progress, whether understood through a Hegelian conception of history or a Darwinist view of sociocultural evolution. In a […]

Introduction and Background on Chen Yi

Musical modernism in Asia is a complex and varied phenomenon. As Frederick Lau points out in his article, “Musical Modernism in Asia,” there are no uni […]

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]

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

I'm pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

Best wishes,

Vivien

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 r…[Read more]

This year’s Outstanding Publication Award winner is Lori Burns for her article “Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal: The Case of Tatiana Shmayluk (Jinjer),” published in Music Theory Online in 2023. In this article, Burns combi…[Read more]

I'm not a member of SMT…[Read more]

One of the most politically controversial songs of twentieth-century East Asia is When Will You Return (何日君再來). In the semi-colonial space of early twentieth-century Shanghai, a new urban culture f […]

Japanese guitarist, turntablist, and composer Otomo Yoshihide (b. 1959) has had a particularly prolific and varied career. Born in Yokohama and raised in Fukushima, he moved to Tokyo […]

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]

The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington seeks candidates for a tenured or tenure-track position in music theory to develop and teach in its new programs in music production and music business, with an expected start date of August 1, 2025. https://ind…[Read more]

The SMT Popular Music Interest Group invites proposals for works-in-progress lightning talks (7-10 minutes) for our interest group meeting during the upcoming Society for Music Theory Annual…[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]

I'm excited to see how many folks have been requesting to join the Zotero library, and I appreciate your patience with getting approvals done!

The Zotero library is a living bibliography, so we will need to continue adding resources to it. I am resharing our bibliography submission form so that we can continue to build out our…[Read more]

Jacob Cupps, our outgoing Webmaster, and Holly Bergeron-Dumaine put together a large Zotero group library, which we will all be able to use going forward! On behalf of the PMIG, I…[Read more]

This post is part of a series on 100 modern conservatory-trained Chinese composers from 1912 onwards who wrote symphonic, ensemble, and solo instrumental music using Western […]