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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The History of Music Theory Study Group (AMS) and Interest Group (SMT) are conducting a brief survey to update our membership rosters. We kindly ask that current or new members take a moment to register their interest in the group(s) (even if you're already on our mailing list) by filling out the survey at the following link:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/pHRF75CsZUtD8H4r1" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://goo.gl/forms/pHRF75CsZUtD8H4r1<br></a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">For the 2018 joint AMS/SMT meeting, we are organizing an open round-table discussion on "Women in the History of Music Theory." We invite anyone who would like to participate in the panel that will lead the discussion to send a brief proposal (no more than 200 words, please) to <a href="mailto:historyofmusictheory@gmail.com">historyofmusictheory@gmail.com</a> by May 10; we anticipate that panelists will offer short contributions (ca. 10 min), rather than full 20 min papers, in order to maximize time for open discussion: </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br>Since (at least) Ptolemais of Cyrene, women have been actively involved in creating and transmitting music theory, often to a hitherto unacknowledged extent, although modern scholarship has recently begun to explore these contributions. This open round-table discussion seeks to identify the historical and social conditions under which these activities took place, while also examining the ways in which music theoretical work by women was received. Over the course of the discussion, we hope to consider how new historical methodologies combined with an expanded definition of music theory can assist in recovering and highlighting these contributions.</div></div>