November 6-9, 2025
2025 Annual Meeting Website
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception
Saturday, Nov. 8 | 9:30–11:30 PM | Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
Conference Schedule
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6
10.45 am–12.15 pm | Lake Bemidji | Session: Analysis of Popular Music
Alyssa Barna (MM 2014), University of Minnesota, “Analyzing the Yodel in Popular Music”
10.45 am–12.15 pm | Lakeshore B | Session: Pedagogy
Timothy K. Chenette (PhD 2017), Utah State University, session chair
2.15–3.45 pm | Greenway Ballroom E-F | Session: Disability in Musical Topics and Form
Drake Eshleman (PhD student),“ ‘Silent Hearing’ in Marc Applebaum’s Darmstadt Kindergarten”
4.00–5.30 pm | Greenway Ballroom E-F | Session: Groove
Prof. Calder Hannan, “A New Quantitative Approach to Headbanging at the Frontiers of Groove”
Prof. Lina Tabak, “‘Rhythmic Venom’ or Comfortable Groove? On Microtiming in Colombian Currulao”
4.00–5.30 pm | Lake Bemidji | Session: Sets and Solfège
Paul Sherill (PhD, 2016), University of Utah, session chair
Nathan Lam (PhD 2019), Eastman School of Music, “United Solfège Equations”
4.00–5.30 pm | Great Lakes A | Session: Puccinian Endings, One Hundred Years On: Rotation, Focalization, and Climax in Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot
Jonathan Guez (MM 2008), University of Houston, “Focalizing Gianni Schicchi”
Andrew Davis (PhD 2003), University of Houston, “Reconsidering Suor Angelica”
4.00–5.30 pm | Northstar Ballroom B | Session: Beyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth
Frederick Reece (post-doctoral scholar 2019–20), University of Washington, session chair
7.15–9.45 pm | Mirage | SMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting
Prof. Amy Tai, “Physical and Psychological Spaces in Dance and Music”
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7
8.00–9.45 am | Nicollet Ballroom A | Joint Poster Session
Reed Mullican (PhD student), “Timbre and Periodicity in Boulez’s Orchestration of Frontispice by Maurice Ravel”
Tori Vilches (PhD student), “Authentic Gasps: A Corpus Study of Intentional Phonated Inhalations in Bad Bunny’s Post-Studio Production”
9.00–10.30 am | Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B | Session: Music and Games
Haley Heinricks (MM 2020), “DM as DJ?: Understanding the Dungeon Master as Player through Ludomusicality”
10.45 am –12.15 pm | Lakeshore C | Session: Memory, Affect, and Attention
Prof. Andrew Goldman, session chair
10.45 am –12.15 pm | Greenway Ballroom C-H C | Session: Reich at 89
Prof. Em. Eric Isaacson, “The Evolution of Reich’s Tritone Bop”
12.30–2.00 pm | Lake Bemidji | Session: SMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group
Prof. Em. Eric Isaacson, moderator
Leah Frederick (PhD 2020), University of Colorado Boulder, presenter
Victoria Malawey (PhD 2007), Macalester College, presenter
Mitch Ohriner (PhD 2011), University of Denver, presenter
2.15–3.45 pm | Lake Bemidji | Session: Techniques and Technologies
Jackson Sean Faulkner (PhD student), “Mixed Signals: Exploring the Production Mix in Hip-Hop”
2.15–3.45 pm | Mirage | Session: Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Omar (2022)
Christa Cole (PhD 2023), Oberlin College and Conservatory, co-organizer and presenter “The Role of the Chorus in Omar”
2.15–5.30 pm | Greenway Ballroom E-F | Session: “Teaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma”
Lyn Ellen Burkett (PhD 2001), Western Carolina University, co-chair, co-organizer and presenter, “Practicing Nimble Pedagogy”
4.00–5.30 pm | Great Lakes A | Session: Structure and Representation in 20th-Century Film Music
Prof. Orit Hilewicz, “Cinematic Structures as Musical Structures in Chantal Akerman’s Early Films”
4.00–5.30 pm | Mirage | Session: Analysis of Vocal Music
Matthew Allan Bilik (MM 2015), “Chant Allusion in 1880–1920 French Art Songs”
Justin Lavacek (PhD 2011), University of North Texas, “Machaut’s Monophonic Lais”
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
9.00 am–12.15 pm | Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B | Session: Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity
Abigail Webster (MM student), “Identity in the Brass Quartet Genre”
9.00 am–10.30 pm | Mirage | Session: 18th Century Issues
Lucy Y. Liu (PhD 2018), Texas State University, “Stravinsky’s Reinvention of 18th-Century Schemas in the Neoclassical Period”
9.00 am–12.15 pm | Regency | Session: Form II
Diego Cubero (PhD 2014), University of North Texas, “Picking up the Pieces: Form in Late Beethoven”
10.45 am –12.15 pm | Regency | Session: Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music
Prof. Orit Hilewicz, session chair
David Ellis Orvek (PhD student),“Experiencing the Music of Brian Ferneyhough”
12.30–2.00 pm | Lakeshore C | SMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting
Prof. Andrew Goldman, “ ‘Hearing As’: Prior Knowledge of Syntactic Structure Affects ERP Components for Musical Expectation”
12.30–2.00 pm | Lakeshore A | SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting|
Prof. Andrew Goldman, “Optimize this! Why do we care if an AI can write songs?”
4.00–5.30 pm | Greenway Ballroom C–H | Session: Practices of Memory and Resistance
Abigail Shupe (MM 2009), Colorado State University, “Memorializing (and Manipulating?) 9/11 Musical Memory”
4.00–5.30 pm | Great Lakes A | Session: Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts
Hippocrates Cheng (PhD student), University of Binghamton, “Sonic Healing and Resistance: Music and Sound in Asian Healthcare Contexts”
9:30 PM | Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Sunday, Nov 9
9.00–10.30 am | Lake Minnetonka | Session: Dance
Prof. Amy Ming Wai Tai, “A Phenomenological Perspective on Choreomusical Space-Time”
9.00–10.30 am | Greenway Ballroom D–G | Session: Jazz Instrumentalities
Hippocrates Cheng (PhD student), University of Binghamton, “Reproducing Jazz through Machines : The Forgotten Master of Player Piano in Jazz History—J. Lawrence Cook (1899–1976) and His Thousands of Piano Rolls”
9.00 am–12.00 pm | Northstar Ballroom A | Charles Ives in 2025 (and Beyond): New Perspectives, Interpretations, and Predictions
David Thurmaier (PhD 2006), University of Missouri-Kansas City, “Navigating Ives’s Legacy: Elliott Carter’s Brass Quintet, The Ives Centennial, and Multiple Musical Identities”
Chelsey Hamm (PhD 2016), Christopher Newport University, “Reconsidering Charles Ives’s Problematic Language”
10.45 am–12.15 pm | Mirage | Session: Intertextuality and Interpretation
Prof. Noriko Manabe, “Genre topics, intertextuality, and narrative in Yoasobi’s ‘Idol’”
Anna Peloso (PhD student), “Thelonious Monk’s Wrong (…but Right) Notes”
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