MTSE is thrilled to announce the 2026 meeting will be held at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, February 27-28, 2026.
We’ll post more details as they become available.
Hope to see you in Atlanta!
2026 Conference Dates & Location
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2024 Conference Wrap-up
The 2024 MTSE/SCSMT joint conference has concluded. It was a wonderful weekend of research presentations, performances, and camaraderie. Many thanks to Jenny Snodgrass and Lipscomb University for hosting the two societies.
This year’s Irna Priore Prize for Student Research was awarded to Audrey Slote for her paper, “Democratized Form: Collage and Cohesion in the Music of Bon Iver.” Congratulations, Audrey!
Next year’s conference will convene at Furman University in Greenville, SC. March 7-8, 2025. Megan Lyons will serve as Local Arrangements Chair; William Ayers will Chair the Program Committee.
See y’all in Greenville!
2024 Conference CFP
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
MUSIC THEORY SOUTHEAST AND
SOUTH CENTRAL SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY
2024
Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
March 15–16, 2024
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Victoria Malawey (Macalester College)
“She Who Digs: Timbre, Voice, and Lateral Placement in Björk’s Fossora”
Graduate Student Workshop
Dr. Christopher Brody (University of Louisville)
“Analyzing Vocal Music of the Baroque: Concepts and Categories”
The program committee for the Music Theory Southeast (MTSE) and the South Central Society for Music Theory (SCSMT) joint meeting, hosted by Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, on March 15–16, 2024, invites proposals on any topic related to music theory, analysis, or music theory pedagogy. As part of the conference, graduate students are invited to apply for a workshop analyzing Baroque vocal music led by Dr. Christopher Brody. We are also pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be Dr. Victoria Malawey.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 11:59 P.M. CST December 3, 2023
Submission Guidelines: Please submit a single document in .pdf format via this Google form. Proposals must be no more than 500 words, including footnotes or endnotes. (Each mathematical equation may be counted as one word.) Proposals should articulate the paper’s premise and its relation to existing music-theoretical research and provide some illustration of applications. In addition to the 500-word proposal, submissions may include up to four pages of supplementary materials (e.g., figures, tables, examples, or bibliography). Supplemental materials may include text annotations, but these annotations should not appreciably add to the word count of the proposal. Since proposals will be evaluated anonymously, author tags must be removed from .pdf files and references to the author’s own work must be in the third person.
Questions on the proposal guidelines can be directed to Program Committee Chair Olivia Lucas at olivialucas1@lsu.edu.
Presentation Formats: Submissions may be made for 20-minute papers, 10-minute lightning talks, or poster presentations. Authors may request their proposal be considered for any or all the available formats. The program committee reserves the right to request a proposal in an alternate format, as necessary.
Submission Restrictions: Only a single submission from an author will be considered. Previously published papers or papers given at national or international conferences will not be considered.
Submission Deadline: To be considered, submissions should be received before 11:59 p.m. CST on December 3, 2023, through the Google Forms portal. Authors will be notified electronically of the Program Committee’s decision in early January 2024.
Student Paper Award: Graduate students who wish to be considered for either the MTSE Irna Priore Prize or the SCSMT Student Paper Award will be asked to indicate interest in the Google Forms submission. Candidates must submit a copy of their complete paper to the program chair (olivialucas1@lsu.edu) by Friday, February 23, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. CST. Winners from previous years are ineligible.
Graduate Student Workshop: Students in music theory and related fields may apply to join the graduate student workshop via the Google form application. The deadline to apply is Thursday February 15, 2024.
MTSE and SCSMT 2024 Joint Program Committee
Olivia Lucas, Program Committee Chair (Louisiana State University)
William Ayers (University of Central Florida)
Jacob Eichhorn, 2023 Irna Priore Prize for Student Research Winner (Eastman School of Music)
Laura Emmery, MTSE President (Emory University)
Pamela Mason-Nguyen, 2023 SCSMT Student Paper Award Winner (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Xieyi “Abby” Zhang (Georgia State University)
Local Arrangements
2024 Conference Dates and Location
Music Theory Southeast is pleased to announce a joint conference with the South Central Society for Music Theory (SCSMT) that will convene March 15-16, 2024 at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN.
We’ll post more details as they become available. Hope to see you there!
2023 Conference Location & Dates
Music Theory Southeast is excited to announce that the 2023 Conference will be held at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA from March 10-11, 2023.
More details will be posted as they become available.
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MTSE Statement on Discrimination and Diversity
The Executive Board of Music Theory Southeast regional society stands in solidarity with the Society for Music Theory’s recent statement addressing the anti-Black racism in Volume 12 of The Journal of Schenkerian Studies. We condemn acts of discrimination on the bases of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, disability, or age. We acknowledge that there is much work to be done in the field of music theory because of its origins in Whiteness and White Supremacy, and acknowledge the harm these origins have caused to the marginalized communities in our membership.
The MTSE Executive Board commits to working to educate our society and ourselves, and will contribute to efforts towards equity and equality within our field moving forward. We encourage our membership to continue to read, discuss, and reflect about issues of race, and to carefully undertake efforts to combat discrimination in our field and personally.
Reminder: MTSE 2020 Graduate Student Workshop
A friendly reminder to graduate students planning to attend the 2020 MTSE Conference:
Trevor deClercq (Middle Tennessee State University) is leading this year’s graduate student workshop, entitled “Presumptions, Limitations, and Misrepresetnations in Roman Numeral Analyses of Popular Music Harmony.” A synopsis of the workshop is available here.
Interested students should register for the workshop before February 14.
See you in Boone!
2020 Conference CFP
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
MUSIC THEORY SOUTHEAST
2020 MEETING
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina
March 13-14, 2020
Adriana Helbig
Keynote Speaker
“Prison Sounds: Time and Release”
Trevor deClercq
Graduate Student Workshop Leader
“Presumptions, Limitations, and Misrepresentations in
Roman Numeral Analyses of Popular Music Harmony”
The program committee solicits proposals for presentations, special sessions, lecture-demonstrations, or panel discussions on any topic related to music theory, analysis, or music theory pedagogy. Proposals should be for 20-minute presentations or 60- or 90-minute special sessions. As part of the conference, graduate students are invited to apply for a workshop led by Trevor deClercq.
This conference is a joint meeting of Music Theory Southeast, the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast & Caribbean Chapter, the College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Chapter, and the American Musicological Society Southeast Chapter. The program committees for these societies encourage cross-disciplinary discussion and paper attendance throughout the weekend. Please note, however, that an individual cannot submit the same proposal to MTSE and other societies participating in this joint conference. Although not encouraged, an individual may submit different proposals to MTSE and other participating societies, but must indicate this double submission and select which proposal takes priority (in the case of double acceptance).
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 11:59 PM EST Sunday, December 1, 2019.
Confirmation of proposals received will be made electronically upon their receipt. Authors will be notified electronically of the Program Committee’s decision by Wednesday, January 1, 2020.
SUBMISSION FORMAT: Proposals and abstracts should be sent via e-mail as .pdf attachments. Put all cover letter information in the body of your e-mail, and attach the proposal as a separate .pdf file. No other electronic format will be accepted. Please be sure that your name does not appear in the .pdf file, even as metadata. Individuals may submit no more than one proposal. Send submissions to the MTSE Secretary (Adrian Childs) at mtseproposals@gmail.com with the subject line: “MTSE 2020 Proposal.” Include the following in your e-mail:
- A proposal of no more than 500 words, including any footnotes or endnotes. (Each mathematical equation may be counted as one word.) A maximum of four pages of supplementary materials (such as musical examples, diagrams, and selected bibliography) may be appended; these pages will not be counted within the 500-word limit, but captions should be brief, not appreciably augmenting either the word count or the proposal’s content.
- The proposal must include the title of the paper but exclude the author’s name and any other identifying information. References to the author’s own work must occur in the third person. Proposals for panel discussions or other special session formats should include individual proposals for each segment of the session, along with a separate session proposal (no more than 500 words) that explains the overall content and organization.
- A cover letter, written as the body of your e-mail, that includes the author’s name, paper title(s), institutional affiliation or city of residence, phone number(s), and e-mail address. (Special sessions or panel discussions should also include a list of all participants, along with their contact information.)
IRNA PRIORE PRIZE FOR STUDENT RESEARCH: The Society will present an award for the best student presentation at the 2020 meeting. To be eligible for consideration, interested students should identify themselves in the cover letter and, if their proposals are accepted, must submit a PDF of their complete paper to the Program Committee Chair (Sarah Iker) at siker@mit.edu by Monday, March 9, 2020. Winners from previous years are ineligible.
GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP: Students in music theory and related fields may submit, via e-mail, a 200-word statement detailing their interest in the workshop. In addition, we ask that a faculty member at your own or another institution send the program chair a brief e-mail confirming your enrollment in a degree program in music theory (or related field) and vouching for your ability to work collegially and willingness to participate actively in the workshop. Please apply to attend the Graduate Student Workshop by February 14, by sending an e-mail the Program Committee Chair (Sarah Iker) at siker@mit.edu with the subject line “MTSE 2020 Workshop.”
Program Committee:
Sarah Iker, Chair (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Juan Chattah, MTSE President (University of Miami)
Benjamin Dobbs (Furman University)
Robert Komaniecki (Appalachian State University)
Dickie Lee (University of Georgia)
Nancy Rogers (Florida State University)
Nate Mitchell, 2019 Irna Priore Prize for Student Research Winner (Princeton University)
Local Arrangements:
Jennifer Snodgrass (Appalachian State University)
2019 Conference Registration & Local Arrangements Information
Registration for the 2019 conference is now open. Click here to go to the form or select “2019 Conference Registration & Local Arrangements” from the “Conferences” menu tab above.
See you in Elon!
2019 Conference Location and Dates
Music Theory Southeast is excited to announce that the 2019 Conference will be held at Elon University, in Elon, NC March 29-30, 2019.
More details will be posted as they become available.
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