Music theory
Music theory in the practical sense has been a part of education at conservatories and music schools for centuries, but the status music theory currently has within academic institutions is relatively recent. In the 1970s, few universities had dedicated music theory programs, many music theorists had been trained as composers or historians, and there was a belief among theorists that the teaching of music theory was inadequate and that the subject was not properly recognised as a scholarly discipline in its own right. A growing number of scholars began promoting the idea that music theory should be taught by theorists, rather than composers, performers or music historians. This led to the founding of the Society for Music Theory in the United States in 1977. In Europe, the French "Société d'Analyse musicale" was founded in 1985. It called the First European Conference of Music Analysis for 1989, which resulted in the foundation of the "Société belge d'Analyse musicale" in Belgium and the "Gruppo analisi e teoria musicale" in Italy the same year, the "Society for Music Analysis" in the UK in 1991, the "Vereniging voor Muziektheorie" in the Netherlands in 1999 and the "Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie" in Germany in 2000. They were later followed by the Russian Society for Music Theory in 2013 and the Polish Society for Music Analysis in 2015, and others are in construction. These societies coordinate the publication of music theory scholarship and support the professional development of music theory researchers.