54th Annual Meeting at Vassar College
The 54th annual meeting of MTSNYS will take place April 11 and 12, 2026, at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, featuring a keynote given by Michèle Duguay (Harvard University) and a workshop led by Catrina Kim (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
Program and registration information will follow soon.
Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award
We are excited to announce that the 2025 Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award goes to Rebecca Moranis (City University of New York Graduate Center) for her paper “‘An Analysis of Joni Mitchell's Vocal Evolution.” Honorable mention goes to Jacob Ludwig (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music) and Evan Martschenko (Eastman School of Music) for their paper "Uncovering Howard Hanson's Proto-Set Theory Pedagogy."
Congratulations Rebecca, Jacob, and Evan!
Members of the 2025 Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award committee included Gilad Rabinovitch, chair (Queens College); Yayoi Uno Everett (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center); Peter Silberman (Ithaca College); Sean Smither (The Juilliard School and Mannes School of Music); Stephanie Venturino (Yale School of Music), and Philip Stoecker (ex officio, Hofstra University).
Theory and Practice
We are pleased to announce the publication of a double volume of Theory and Practice, with articles by Danielle Bastone Barrettara, James S. MacKay, Samantha M. Inman, and David Hier, and including reviews of new books on musical form by Caitlin Martinkus and of The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music by William O’Hara.
More details and digital versions of the articles can be found here.
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