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.
SECM is excited to announce a new Academic Mentoring and Peer Support Program for 2024–2025!
The SECM Academic Mentoring and Peer Support Program aims to aid student/early career members of the society by providing mentoring and peer support in the areas of professional development (e.g., conference proposals, grant applications), scholarly resources (e.g., bibliography, archives), and careers in academia (e.g., job documents, interview prep). Students/early career members of SECM, as well as established scholars of 18th-century music who are interested to serve as a mentor, are invited to visit the program website for more information and to submit an interest form. All interest forms are due by October 15, 2024.
Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music is back!
We will kick off the season with ‘Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture before and after Braille,” a panel with Adeline Mueller, Christopher Parton, and Annette Richards on Tuesday, October 1st, 2025, 4:30–6:00PM EDT.
Our speakers are the organizers of an upcoming interdisciplinary, international symposium in honor of Paradis’ bicentenary that will take place at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) and online on November 22–23, 2024. The panel will feature three papers on Paradis previewing recent developments (including a rediscovered musical work) and current research. In the discussion following, ample time will be devoted to questions and methodologies informing the symposium.
Please visit our website to register (free but required) and for more information about this and other events of the 2024–2025 season.
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.