Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory

• Paper (20 minutes)
• Special session on a single topic (three 20-minute papers)
• Roundtable discussion (90 minutes)

• Authors should submit a PDF proposal of no more than 500 words, including any footnotes or endnotes.
  • A special session proposal may submit 3 500-word proposals combined into one document, delineated with appropriate titles.
• A maximum of four pages of supplementary materials (such as musical examples, diagrams, and selected bibliography) may be appended; these pages will not be counted within the 500-word limit.
• The proposal must include the title of the paper but exclude the author’s name and any other identifying information. Authors are responsible to ensure that metadata also does not include identifying information.
• 250-word abstracts will be requested for accepted proposals at a later date.

The 2025 conference was a wonderful success!  We are proud to announce the winner of the best student paper:  Joey Grunkemeyer from Indiana University, “Form as Topic? Reframing Formal Deformation in Haydn’s Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Hob. XV: 30.”  Congratulations, Joey!