Activities

This page lists forthcoming activities of the participating societies and of their European friends. Most of the entries link to a call for papers; a separate page lists these calls by date of the deadline. Past activities are recalled in the Archive.

• 28 September 2026, 17-19h CEST. First French Speaking Meeting on Music Analysis and Theory, SFAM. Online.

• 29-30 September 2026, Lectures, Prof. Thomas Christensen. Faculty of Music, Sala Udruženja kompozitora Srbije, Mišarska 12–14, Beograd.

• 2-4 October 2026, Polyphony of Music Theory. Methodological Pluralism in Scholarship, 16th Conference Music Theory and Analysis, Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade. Zoom Link Ceremonial Hall – Senate Room. Submission deadline extended to 1 May 2026.

• 2-4 October 2026, The miracle of hearing. Musical hearing between artistic ambition, creativity, and science. 26th Annual Congress of the GMTH, Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale). Submission deadline 10 May 2026.

• 7 October 2026, 6 pm BST. SMA Zoom Colloquium: Chelsea Burns, ‘Neither National Nor Universal: Rethinking Place in Musical Modernisms’

• 13 October 2026, 4 pm BST. SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group, Online Roundtable “Analysing Form in Italian Opera.”

• 16-18 October 2026, International Conference Beyond the Drawing Room: Women in the Promotion of Music in the Long 19th Century, Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. Submission deadline 29 March 2026.

• 22-26 October 2026, Music and Sound Representations, Thematic School of the Collegium Musicae, Sorbonne University. Call for Applications deadline 10 July 2026.

• 26-29 October 2026, XXIIIth International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis of the GATM, State Conservatory of Music “G. Martucci”, Via G. Paesano 2 Salerno,

• 11 November 2026, 14h-18h. Remembering Arnold Whittall (1935-2026): A celebration of his life and work. King’s College, London.

• 12 November 2026, 10h-17h, SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group, Study day “Mainstreams and Exceptions.” Registration Deadline 1 November.

• 12 November 2026, 6 pm GMT. SMA Zoom Colloquium: Joseph Mason, ‘Articulating structure in Old French song’.

• 16-20 November 2026, Lectures. Prof. Gary Karpinski. VvM, Music Theorist in Residence.

• 20-21 November 2026, Articulating Orality and Notation in Music, Day of Music Analysis of the SFAM, Bordeaux University and Conservatoire. Submission deadline extended to 15 June 2026.

• 2-4 December 2026, Text and Context in Domestic Popular Music, Institute for Literature and Art and the Musicological Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

• 15-17 April 2027, HarMA Seminar Event. University of Ljubljana – Academy of Music (Slovenia). Submission deadline 15 January 2027.

• 12-15 May 2027, International Scientific Conference Nine Decades – Nine Questions on Higher Music Education in the 21st Century. 90 Years since the Founding of the Faculty of Music, Belgrade. Submission deadline 31 December 2026.

If you want to announce a European activity in the field of music theory and/or analysis, write us at europeanmusictheory@gmail.com