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 and December 2023 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

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]

Hi everyone,

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]

Hi, everyone. For the past few years I’ve been working intermittently on the music of Danish electroacoustic pioneer Else Marie Pade (1924-2016), who in 1944 at the age of 19 was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned for 8 months because of her participation in an all-female resistance group. Specifically, my research has focused on a couple of…[Read more]

Hello all!

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]

Hi all!

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]

Dear colleagues,

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]

The Society for Music Theory’s Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and Mathematics of Music Interest Group will hold a joint virtual meetup on Tuesday, August 1st at 2:00 pm EDT. The program will consist of the following three presentations:

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

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This is a reminder that the Society for Music Theory’s Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and Mathematics of Music Interest Group will hold a joint virtual meetup on Tuesday, August 1st at 2:00 pm EDT and that summaries for presentations are due by Friday, June 30th.

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

The Society for Music Theory’s Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and Mathematics of Music Interest Group will hold a joint virtual meetup on Tuesday, August 1st at 2:00 pm EDT.

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]

Folks in this forum might be interested in the published videos from this recent symposium on

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

On the heels of the exciting AAWM symposium series (June 2023) on rhythm and meter in world musics, we are pleased to announce:  

Rhythm in Music since 1900

22-24 September, 2023

Schulich School of Music, McGill University

Call for presentations

Submission deadline: 1 May 2023   

   Keynote speakers:

• Nicole Lizée, compose…

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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 2020 and December 2022 on analysis of post-1945 music within modernist, experimental,…[Read more]

Until recently, studies about Russian composers have dominated music scholarship on the countries of the former Soviet Union. Postcolonial theory can provide a useful framework to expanding research on music repertoire from the former Soviet Republics. The SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group is planning to propose a…[Read more]