Programs and Abstracts Archive

The Music Theory Society of New York State is the oldest professional society for music theorists in the US, and it has been holding annual meetings at colleges and universities across New York State for more than 50 years. Abstracts and programs from meetings since 1997 are available below.

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: MTSNYS at Fifty: An Overdue Celebration: Mary Arlin, Timothy A. Johnson, Betsy Marvin, Philip Stoecker

    Program Chair: Alex Reed

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Yayoi Uno Everett (CUNY Hunter College, The Graduate Center)

    Workshop Leader: Matt BaileyShea (University of Rochester)

    Program Chair: Tomoko Deguchi (Winthrop University)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Poundie Burstein (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)

    Workshop Leader: Nicole Biamonte

    Program Chair: Brian Moseley (University a Buffalo)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Michael Buchler (Florida State University)

    Workshop Leader: Jennifer Snodgrass, Appalachian State University

    Program Chair: Tahirih Motazedian (Vassar College)

  • Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Moderator, Ellie M. Hisama (Columbia University) Clifton Boyd (Yale University); Catrina Kim (University of North Carolina at Greensboro); Alissandra Reed (Eastman School of Music)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Robert Hasegawa (McGill University)

    Workshop Leader: Megan Kaes Long (Oberlin College and Conservatory)

    Program Chair: Zachary Bernstein (Eastman School of Music)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Sumanth Gopinath (University of Minnesota)

    Workshop Leader: Jennifer Iverson (University of Chicago)

    Program Chair: Ellie M. Hisama(Columbia University)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Suzannah Clark (Harvard University)

    Workshop Leader: Anna Gawboy (The Ohio State University)

    Program Chair: Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers (University of Ottawa)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote: Robert Wason (Eastman School of Music)

    Performance Symposium: Nicholas Kitchen (Borromeo String Quartet and New England Conservatory) and Patrick McCreless (Yale University)

    Program Chair: Edward Klorman (Queens College, CUNY)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: David Huron (Ohio State University)

    Program Chair: Philip Stoecker (Hofstra University)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Severine Neff ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

    Program Chair: Philip Lambert (Baruch College, CUNY)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Nicole Biamonte (McGill University)

    Program Chair: Sigrun Heinzelmann (Oberlin Conservatory)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Joel Lester (Mannes College of Music)

    Program Chair: William Marvin (Eastman School of Music)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Steve Laitz (Eastman School of Music)

    Program Chair: Rebecca Jemian (Ithaca College)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Program Chair: John Covach (Eastman School of Music)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Program Chair: William Rothstein

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Jonathan Dunsby

    Program Chair: Mark Anson ­Cartwright (Queens College, CUNY)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Eric Isaacson (Indiana University)

    Program Chair: Dave Headlam, chair

  • Program and Abstracts

    Program Chair: Chandler Carter (Hofstra University)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Program Chair: Steven Laitz (Eastman School of Music)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Harry Powers

    Program Chair: Eric McKee (Penn State University)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: William Rothstein

    Program Chair: Mary I. Arlin (Ithaca College)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Panel:

    Martin Scherzinger, Chair (Eastman School of Music), Christopher Hasty (University of Pennsylvania) Ellen Koskoff (Eastman School of Music) Lawrence Kramer (Fordham University) Fred Lerdahl (Columbia University)

  • Program and Abstracts

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: William Caplin (McGill University)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Libby Larsen 

  • Program and Abstracts

    Keynote Address: Hedi Siegel (Hunter College, CUNY)

  • Program and Abstracts

    Program Chair: Elizabeth West Marvin (Eastman School of Music)