Society for Eighteenth-Century Music
“Above all, music must move the heart…” C. P. E. Bach
The purpose of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is to promote the study and performance of music of the eighteenth century. The Society provides a forum where scholars and performers can further their knowledge of music, history and interrelated arts of the period and serves as a resource to facilitate and encourage collaboration.
The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music (SECM) and Divino Sospiro-Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal (DS-CEMSP) will jointly sponsor “Transnational musical and theatrical influence in the 18th-century Atlantic world,” a conference to be held in Lisbon Portugal at the Mafra National Palace in collaboration with the National Music Museum.
The Call for Papers is out now, and submissions are due October 31, 2025
The American Bach Society is inviting individual paper proposals for its upcoming meeting, “Celebrating Bach,” which will take place October 1–4, 2026 at Baldwin-Wallace University (Berea, OH). Proposals are due by January 15, 2026. Please visit their website for more information.
For more information about Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music, a virtual forum sponsored by SECM and four other societies, please visit our website.
The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is pleased to provide two resources for the teaching of eighteenth-century music: DEIB Teaching Resources for Music and Musical Examples by 18th-century BIPOC Composers. These resources promote diversity, equity, and belonging and we hope they will expand the ways we teach and think about eighteenth-century music.