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The Society for Music Analysis is an academic society, founded in 1992 by Jonathan Dunsby, specializing in music theory and analysis. It is based in England and, although it does not produce it, is closely associated with the academic journal Music Analysis.[1] which published its first issue in 1982.

The officiel website describes SMA thus:

The Society for Music Analysis (SMA) is a UK-based international organisation dedicated to music theory and analysis. We are affiliated with the journal Music Analysis and support and organise a regular programme of events, including the annual Theory and Analysis Graduate Students (TAGS) Conference, the Music Analysis Summer School (a residential course taught by international experts), and other Music Analysis Conferences (‘MACs’) and symposia. We are members of the European Theory & Analysis of Music (EuroT&AM) Network.[2]

The formation and subsequent activities of SMA have been significant enough to be have been reported on in scholarly journals on the continent[3] as well as on the other side of the Atlantic.[4][5] More regularly, numerous scholarly published articles refer to having presented originally the research at SMA conferences or having published preliminary results in the SMA newsletter.[6][7][8][9] [10] Academic organizations in both Europe and America routinely include SMA in their listings.[11][12][13] Besides its own annual conference, SMA also holds study days[14] and sponsors numerous other scholarly events [15] as well as commissioning scholarly investigative projects.[16] Additionally, SMA issues various awards, such as the Pascall Medal, the Adele Katz Early Career Research Award, and so forth.

The mission of SMA can be seen as fostering communication with respect to ongoing engagement with canonic repertoires as well as critical discourse surrounding and infusing this engagement.[17][18] This has included sometimes tendentious debates waged, for instance at the 2014 SMA/EuroMAC conference in Leuven.[19] The current president of SMA is Kenneth Smith.

References

  1. ^ "Music Analysis". Music Analysis. Wiley Online Library. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1468-2249. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  2. ^ "Society for Music Analysis".
  3. ^ Kelly, Barbara L.; Rebecca Thumpston (2017). "Maintaining the Entente Cordiale. Musicological Collaboration between the United Kingdom and France". Revue de Musicologie. 103 (2): 615–640.
  4. ^ Browne, Richmond (1994). "Report: The 1993 Southampton University Music Analysis Conference and the New Society of Music Analysis". Journal of Music Theory. 38 (2).
  5. ^ Browne, Richmond (1995). "Report: The 1994 Lancaster University Music Analysis Conference". Journal of Music Theory. 39 (2): 385–395.
  6. ^ Spitzer, Michael (2010). "Music Analysis". Music Analysis. 29 (1/3): 1–7.
  7. ^ Franseen, Kristin M. (2020). "Queering Musical Biography in the Writings of Edward Prime-Stevenson and Rosa Newmarch". 19th-Century Music. 44 (2): 100–118.
  8. ^ Lilja, Esa (May 2014). "Conference report". Popular Music. 33 (2): 337–339.
  9. ^ Howe, Blake (Summer 2009). "The Allure of Dissolution: Bodies, Forces, and Cyclicity in Schubert's Final Mayrhofer Settings". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 62 (2): 271–322.
  10. ^ Rushton, Julian (March 1994). "Scylla and Charybdis. Julian Rushton Takes a Look at the Pleasures and Perils of Postgraduate Musical Study". The Musical Times. 135 (1813): 179–180.
  11. ^ "German Society for Music Theory".
  12. ^ "Dutch Society for Music Theory".
  13. ^ "European Network".
  14. ^ Rushton, Julian (March 1994). "Scylla and Charybdis. Julian Rushton Takes a Look at the Pleasures and Perils of Postgraduate Musical Study". The Musical Times. 135 (1813): 179–180.
  15. ^ "Cambridge University".
  16. ^ McQueen, Hilary (2021-07-01). "Have Your Say: Letters to the Editor". Music Teacher. Music Teacher. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  17. ^ Whittall, Arnold (2011). "Being Courteous: The View from the Old Country". Music Theory Spectrum. 33 (2): 222–225.
  18. ^ Dunsby, Jonathan (1997). "Acts of Recall". The Musical Times. 138 (1847): 12–17.
  19. ^ Taruskin, Richard (2020). "Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices". Unanalyzable, Is It? (1 ed.). University of California Press. p. 260.


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