American Musicological Society, Rocky Mountain Chapter

Conferences

 

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Welcome to the website of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society. The Rocky Mountain Chapter brings together professors, students, and scholars of musicology from the Rocky Mountain region, which covers the American states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Our chapter collects no dues and has no application process. If you live in the region and are a member of the AMS, you are a member of the Rocky Mountain Chapter.

 

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Rocky Mountain Scholars Conference

The annual Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference is a joint meeting of the Rocky Mountain Chapters of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, and the Southwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

2026 Conference

This will be held in Spring 2026 at the University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ.  Conference dates will be posted in the near future.

2025 Conference

The 2025 conference was a wonderful success!  We are proud to announce the winner of the best student paper: Laura Berghout McTavish (Kansas University), “Irony in Scoring Maestro: The Re-Dramatization of Bernstein’s Dramatic Works”. Congratulations, Laura!

Past Conferences

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT | March 21-22

Part of the Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference, Together with the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory

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Best Student Paper: Laura Berghout McTavish (Kansas University),”Irony in Scoring Maestro: The Re-Dramatization of Bernstein’s Dramatic Works”

Boise State University, Boise ID | March 15-16

Part of the Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference, Together with the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southwest Region.

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Utah State University, Caine College of the Arts, Department of Music
Logan, UT | March 31-April 1

Part of the Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference, Together with the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southwest Region.

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Abstracts

University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO | March 11-12

Part of the Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference, together with the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southwest Region.

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Abstracts

University of Northern Colorado
Online | April 9-10

Part of the Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference, together with the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southwest Region.

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Abstracts

Due to COVID19, the 2020 Rocky Mountain Scholars Conference was canceled.  We offered to make papers available here for anyone who wished to provide them.  In the very near future, this portal will contain all the papers and any audio files sent by those presenters who were not able to make their presentations due to the cancellation of the conference.

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Abstracts

AMSRMC Leadership

President: Christopher Sheer, Utah State University

Past President: Robert S. Shay, University of Colorado

Chapter Representative to the AMS Council: Dawn Grapes, Colorado State University

Student Representatives to the AMS Council: TBD