American Musicological Society, Rocky Mountain Chapter
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 2026
2026 Conference
The 2026 annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Music Scholar’s Conference (a joint meeting of the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and the AMS Rocky Mountain chapter) will be held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. The meeting will take place March 27-28, 2026.
We invite all who are interested in attending to register for the conference here: Conference Registration.
All participants are required to register for this conference, and please register as soon as possible. There is no charge for students to register for this conference. For all others, early registration is $50, and late registration is $75. Late registration applies on/after March 21, 2026.
Alongside 30 paper presentations, this conference will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Daphne Leong (University of Colorado, Boulder) entitled “What Counts as Meter?”
A program/schedule will be available in coming days.
Planning Committee:
Jay Rosenblatt (University of Arizona)
Hannah McLaughlin (President, BYU)
Jennifer England (Montana State University)
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
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.
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.
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