2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting

6–9 November 2025 • Hyatt Regency • Minneapolis, Minnesota

About

The American Musicological Society (AMS) is holding its 91st Annual Meeting jointly with the Society for Music Theory (SMT) on 6–9 November 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.

Founded in 1934, AMS is a non-profit organization committed to advancing “research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship.” The 2025 AMS Annual Meeting is a forum for the exploration of music and musicology and is made possible by the support and voluntary service of AMS committee members on the Committee on the Annual Meeting and Public Events, Program Committee, and the Performance Committee.

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Attend In Person

Get the most of out the AMS Annual Meeting by joining us on site in Minneapolis and attending in person. Registration for the in-person meeting provides access to upwards of 300 sessions, lectures, performances, and receptions, almost all of which are free to registered attendees. Best of all, AMS members enjoy sharply discounted rates. Full details are provided on the 2025 Joint Annual Meeting website.

Attend Online

This year, for the first time ever, you can experience an in-person AMS Annual Meeting online. To better serve those who are unable or unwilling to travel to the meeting, the Society will record or stream more than two dozen featured sessions and performances and make them available to online registrants.

How does it work? Well, just register for an AMS Annual Meeting “Select Pass” ($45) and you’ll get access to online sessions scheduled to take place in the morning on Thursday, 6 November 2025, hybrid sessions throughout the day on Friday, as well as recordings of nearly two dozen featured sessions and performances. All content will be either live streamed or recorded and posted within twenty-four hours. All content will also be archived for later viewing.

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Scott Joplin's Ragtime

In this lecture recital, distinguished performer and scholar, Marilyn Nonken, performs and speaks to the music of Scott Joplin (1868-1917) and his collaborators Scott Hayden (1882-1915), Arthur Marshall (1881-1968), and Louis Chauvin (1882-1908). These early-twentieth-century American artists formed a tightly-knit community, orbiting Joplin in their mutual roles as performers and composers, teachers, students, classmates, and kinfolk. Together, they created a soundworld merging urban and rural vocabularies, a ragtime music exploiting a rich harmonic, melodic, textural, and cultural vocabulary. This event was held at the 2023 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting in Denver.