The Society for Music Theory is pleased to announce its 2024 publication award winners!
Wallace Berry Award
Agawu, Kofi. 2023. On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chua, Daniel K.L., and Alexander Rehding. 2022. Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth. New York: Zone Books.
Outstanding Publication Award
Burns, Lori. 2023. "Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal." Music Theory Online 29 (4). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.4.2.
Grant, Roger Mathew. 2022. "Colonial Galant: Three Analytical Perspectives from the Chiquitano Missions." Journal of the American Musicological Society 75 (1): 129–62. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.129.
Martins, José Oliveira. 2023. "Lutosławski's Mid-Century Harmony: Reconceptualizing Chordal Space in the Five Iłłakowicz Songs." Journal of Music Theory 67 (2): 209–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10699703.
Murphy, Scott. 2023. "An Eightfold Taxonomy of Harmonic Progressions, and Its Application to Triads Related by Major Third and Their Significance in Recent Screen Music." Journal of Music Theory 67 (1): 141–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10232093.
Posen, Thomas William. 2023. "The Interaction of Mode and Psalmody in Glarean's Circle." Music Theory and Analysis 10 (2): 95–154. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.10.2.1.
Emerging Scholar Award (Book)
Motazedian, Táhirih. 2023. Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Murphy, Nancy. 2023. Times A-Changin': Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music. New York: Oxford University Press.
Zazulia, Emily. 2021. Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing. New York: Oxford University Press.
Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Hutchinson, Kyle. 2022. "Chromatically Altered Diminished-Seventh Chords: Reframing Function through Dissonance Resolution in Late Nineteenth-Century Tonality." Music Analysis 41 (1): 94–144. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12185.
Lucas, Olivia R. 2021. "Performing Analysis, Performing Metal." Music Theory Online 27 (4). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.4.8.
Maler, Anabel, and Robert Komaniecki. 2021. "Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop." Music Theory Online 27 (1). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.1.7.
Posen, Thomas William. 2023. "Windows into Beethoven's Lessons in Bonn: Kirnberger's Die Wahren Grundsätze Zum Gebrauch Der Harmonie (1773) and Vogler's Gründe Der Kuhrpfälzischen Tonschule in Beyspielen (1776/1778)." Music Theory Online 29 (4). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.4.5.
Raz, Carmel. 2021. "To 'Fill up, Completely, the Whole Capacity of the Mind': Listening with Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland." Music Theory Spectrum 44 (1): 141–54. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtab012. Open access until Dec. 19
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
Buchler, Michael Howard, and Gregory J. Decker, eds. 2023. Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Hoag, Melissa, ed. 2023. Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom. New York: Routledge.
Lee, Gavin S. K., ed. 2023. Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rodgers, Stephen, ed. 2021. The Songs of Fanny Hensel. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Public-Facing Scholarship Award
DeGraf, Galen. 2023. "System and Symmetry: How to Compose like Arvo Pärt, Tintinnabuli Style." YouTube, November 18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u903Z0_Zzc.
Lehman, Frank. 2023. "How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders." The New York Times, July 7. Gift link
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Burt, Patricia, and Philip Duker. 2022. "Student-Driven Music Theory: How the Question Formulation Technique Can Promote Agency, Engagement, and Curiosity." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 36 (2). https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/jmtp/vol36/iss1/2.
Straus, Joseph Nathan. 2022. The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three Graphic Music Analyses. New York: Oxford University Press.
Citation of Special Merit
Remeš, Derek, ed. 2022. Introduction to and Translation of F. W. Marpurg's Abhandlung von der Fuge. Translated by Jane Hines. In Between Chopin and Tellefsen: European Music Treatises: Universality and National Identity, Warsaw: Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
View the Publication Awards page for more information on these awards. A list of winners in prior years can be found on the Past Publication Awards page.