Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory

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.

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!