Publication Award Recipients
The Society for Music Theory awards recognition for significant contributions to music theory, analysis, or history of theory.
| Year | Award | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| Year 2024 | Award Music Theory Pedagogy Award | Citation 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 |
| Year 2024 | Award Music Theory Pedagogy Award | Citation Straus, Joseph Nathan. 2022. The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three Graphic Music Analyses. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| Year 2024 | Award Public-Facing Scholarship Award | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Public-Facing Scholarship Award | Citation Lehman, Frank. 2023. "How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders." The New York Times, July 7. |
| Year 2024 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Agawu, Kofi. 2023. On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Year 2024 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Chua, Daniel K.L., and Alexander Rehding. 2022. Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth. New York: Zone Books. |
| Year 2024 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Book) | Citation Motazedian, Táhirih. 2023. Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film. Berkeley: University of California Press. |
| Year 2024 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Book) | Citation Zazulia, Emily. 2021. Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| Year 2024 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Book) | Citation Murphy, Nancy. 2023. Times A-Changin': Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Rodgers, Stephen, ed. 2021. The Songs of Fanny Hensel. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Lee, Gavin S. K., ed. 2023. Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Hoag, Melissa, ed. 2023. Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom. New York: Routledge. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation 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. |
| Year 2024 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation Lucas, Olivia R. 2021. "Performing Analysis, Performing Metal." Music Theory Online 27 (4). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.4.8. |
| Year 2024 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation 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. |
| Year 2023 | Award Public-Facing Scholarship Award | Citation Alyssa Barna, “The Dance Chorus in Recent Top-40 Music” , SMT-V 6, no. 4 (2020) |
| Year 2023 | Award Public-Facing Scholarship Award | Citation Noriko Manabe, “Abe Road: Kuwata Keisuke's Beatles Parody,” SMT-V 8, no. 1 (2022) |
| Year 2023 | Award Music Theory Pedagogy Award | Citation Timothy Chenette & Daniel Stevens, Foundations of Aural Skills (Pressbooks 2022) |
| Year 2023 | Award Music Theory Pedagogy Award | Citation Angela Ripley, “Post-tonal Postcards: Communicating Analysis and Reflection through Prose Writing,” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 34, no. 1 (2020) |
| Year 2023 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Daphne Tan, Editor; Daphne Tan & Christoph Neidhöfer, trans., Music Psychology by Ernst Kurth (Routledge 2022; original work published in 1931) |
| Year 2023 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Philip Duker, Carla Colletti, Bryn Hughes, Meghan Naxer, Dan Shanahan, Chris Stover, Leslie Tilley, and Anna Yu Wang, eds., “Beyond Western Musicalities,” Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 8 (2020) |
| Year 2023 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation William Moylan, Lori Burns, Mike Alleyne, eds., Analyzing Recorded Music: Collected Perspectives on Popular Music Tracks (Routledge 2022) |
| Year 2023 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Book) | Citation Mariusz Kozak, Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music (Oxford University Press, 2020) |
| Year 2023 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Book) | Citation Christopher White, Music in the Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, and Tonal Traditions (Routledge, 2022) |
| Year 2023 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation Antares Boyle, “Flexible Ostinati, Groove, and Formal Process in Craig Taborn's Avenging Angel,” Music Theory Online 27, no. 2 (2021) |
| Year 2023 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation Marc Hannaford, “Fugitive Music Theory and George Russell's Theory of Tonal Gravity,” Theory and Practice 46 (2021) |
| Year 2023 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation Catrina Kim, “Issues in Teaching Music Theory Ethically: Reframing University Directives of Antiracist and Decolonized Curricula,” Theory and Practice 46 (2021) |
| Year 2023 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation Mark Micchelli, “Sound Structures and Naked Fire Gestures in Cecil Taylor's Solo Piano Music,” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (2022) |
| Year 2023 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (Article) | Citation Gilad Rabinovitch, “In search of Carl Czerny's Schemata: Listening to Early Nineteenth-Century Improvisation,” Music Theory Spectrum 44, no. 2 (2022) |
| Year 2023 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Chelsea Burns, “‘Musique cannibale’: The Evolving Sound of Indigeneity in Heitor Villa-Lobos's Tres poêmas indigenas,” Music Theory Spectrum 43, no. 1 (2021) |
| Year 2023 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Steven Cahn, “ Schoenberg, Al-Kindī, and the Unbound Braid: A Rendezvous in Barcelona a Thousand Years in the Making,” The Musical Quarterly 104, no. 3-4 (2021) |
| Year 2023 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Mariusz Kozak, “Feeling Meter: Kinesthetic Knowledge and the Case of Recent Progressive Metal,” Journal of Music Theory 65, no. 2 (2021) |
| Year 2023 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Rachel Lumsden, “Music Theory for the 'Weaker Sex': Oliveria Prescott's Columns for The Girl's Own Paper” , Music Theory Online 26, no. 3 (2020) |
| Year 2023 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Omer Maliniak & Yoel Greenberg, “Follow the Solo: The Formal Evolution of the Concerto in the Eighteenth Century,” Music Theory Spectrum 44, no. 2 (2022) |
| Year 2023 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Paul Berliner, The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy (University of Chicago Press, 2020) |
| Year 2023 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Julian Hook, Exploring Musical Spaces: A Synthesis of Mathematical Approaches (Oxford University Press, 2022) |
| Year 2023 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Victoria Malawey, A Blaze of Light in Every Word: Analyzing the Popular Singing Voice (Oxford University Press, 2020) |
| Year 2022 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Matt BaileyShea, Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and Song (Yale University Press, 2021). |
| Year 2022 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Mitchell Ohriner, Flow: Expressive Rhythm in the Rapping Voice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). |
| Year 2022 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). |
| Year 2022 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Liam Hynes-Tawa, “Tonic, Final, Kyū: Tonal Mappings in the Meiji Period and Beyond,” Analytical Approaches to World Music 9, no. 1 (2021). |
| Year 2022 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Kara Yoo Leaman, “Musical Techniques in Balanchine’s Jazzy Bach Ballet,” Journal of Music Theory 65, no. 1 (2021): 139–69. |
| Year 2022 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Noriko Manabe, “We Gon’ Be Alright? The Ambiguities of Kendrick Lamar’s Protest Anthem,” Music Theory Online 25, no. 1 (2019) |
| Year 2022 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book) | Citation Braxton D. Shelley, Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). |
| Year 2022 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book) | Citation Leslie A. Tilley, Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019). |
| Year 2022 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Andrew J. Chung, “What Is Musical Meaning? Theorizing Music as Performative Utterance,” Music Theory Online 25, no. 1 (2019). |
| Year 2022 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Jocelyn Ho, “Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Tōru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II,” Music Theory Online 27, no. 4 (2021). |
| Year 2022 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Landon Morrison, “Encoding Post-Spectral Sound: Kaija Saariaho’s Early Electronic Music at IRCAM, 1982–87,” Music Theory Online 27, no. 3 (2021). |
| Year 2022 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Leigh VanHandel, ed., The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (New York: Routledge, 2020). |
| Year 2022 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Edward Venn and Philip Stoecker, eds., Thomas Adès Studies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021). |
| Year 2021 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Long, Megan Kaes. Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| Year 2021 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Momii, Toru. "A Transformational Approach to Gesture in Shō Performance," Music Theory Online 26.4 (2020). |
| Year 2021 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book) | Citation Nobile, Drew. Form as Harmony in Rock Music, Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| Year 2021 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book)HM | Citation Lehman, Frank. Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema, Oxford University Press, 2018. |
| Year 2021 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Tan, Daphne. "'Dynamic Dualism': Kurth and Riemann on Music Theory and the Mind," Music Theory Spectrum 42.1: 105-121 (2020). |
| Year 2021 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article)HM | Citation Shelley, Braxton. "Analyzing Gospel," Journal of the American Musicological Society 72.1: 181-243 (2019). |
| Year 2021 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Parsons, Laurel and Brenda Ravenscroft. Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular and Sacred Music to 1900, Oxford University Press, 2018. |
| Year 2020 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Straus, Joseph. Broken Beauty,Oxford University Press, 2018. |
| Year 2020 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Spicer, Mark."Fragile, Emergent, and Absent Tonics in Pop and Rock Songs," Music Theory Online 23.2 (2017). |
| Year 2020 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book) | Citation de Souza, Jonathan. Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition, Oxford University Press, 2017. |
| Year 2020 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Long, Megan Kaes. "Cadential Syntax and Tonal Expectation in Late Sixteenth-Century Homophony," Music Theory Spectrum 40.1 (2018): 52 - 83. |
| Year 2020 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Rehding, Alexander and Steven Rings, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| Year 2020 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Decker, Gregory J. & Matthew R. Shaftel, eds. Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera, Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| Year 2019 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Yust, Jason. Organized Time: Rhythm, Tonality, and Form (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018). |
| Year 2019 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Iverson, Jennifer. "Invisible Collaboration: The Dawn and Evolution of elektronische Musik," Music Theory Spectrum 39, no. 2 (October 1, 2017): 200-222. |
| Year 2019 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book) | Citation Klorman, Edward. Mozart's Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber Works (Cambridge University Press, 2017). |
| Year 2019 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Brody, Chris. "Parametric Interaction in Tonal Repertoires," Journal of Music Theory 60, no. 2 (October 1, 2016): 97-148. |
| Year 2019 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Publication Award | Citation Murphy, Scott. ed., Brahms and the Shaping of Time (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018). |
| Year 2019 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Richard Ashley and Renee Timmers, eds., The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition (Routledge, 2017). |
| Year 2018 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Moortele, Steven Vande. The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner, Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| Year 2018 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Zayaruznaya, Anna. "Intelligibility Redux: Motets and the Modern Medieval Sound," Music Theory Online 23.2 (2017). |
| Year 2018 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Collection | Citation Markus Neuwirth and Pieter Bergé, eds., What is a Cadence? Theoretical and Analytical Perspectives on Cadences in the Classical Repertoire, Leuven University Press, 2015. |
| Year 2018 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Bryan J. Parkhurst, "Making a Virtue of Necessity: Schenker and Kantian Teleology, Journal of Music Theory 61.1 (2017): 59-109 |
| Year 2018 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book) | Citation Hicks, Andrew. Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos,Oxford University Press, 2017. |
| Year 2017 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Harrison, Daniel. Pieces of Tradition: An Analysis of Contemporary Tonal Music,Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Year 2017 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Byros, Vasili. "Prelude on a Partimento: Invention in the Compositional Pedagogy of the German States in the Time of J. S. Bach, Music Theory Online 21.3 (2015). |
| Year 2017 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Matthew Boyle and Paul Sherrill, "Galant Recitative Schemas, Journal of Music Theory 59.1 (2015): 1-61. |
| Year 2017 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book) | Citation Monahan, Seth. Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas, Oxford University Press, 2015. |
| Year 2017 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Carl Schachter, The Art of Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory, edited by Joseph N. Straus, Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Year 2017 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Collection | Citation Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft, eds., Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers (Concert Music, 1960-2000). Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Year 2016 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation DeFord, Ruth. Tactus, Mensuration, and Rhythm in Renaissance Music, Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
| Year 2016 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Losada, Catherine. "Complex Multiplication, Structure, and Process: Harmony and Form in Boulez's Structures II," Music Theory Spectrum 36.1 (2014): 1-35. |
| Year 2016 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (article) | Citation Hasegawa, Robert. "Clashing Harmonic Systems in Haas's Blumenstück and in vain," Music Theory Spectrum 37.2 (2015): 204-23. |
| Year 2016 | Award Emerging Scholar Award (book) | Citation Grant, Roger Matthew. Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era, Oxford University Press, 2014. |
| Year 2016 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation David Lewin, untitled essay on Morgengruß, in David Schwarz and Richard Cohn, eds., David Lewin's Morgengruß: Text, Context, Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2015. |
| Year 2016 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation John Rothgeb, ed., Beethoven's Last Piano Sonatas: An Edition with Elucidation, Vols. 1-4, Oxford University Press, 2015. |
| Year 2016 | Award Outstanding Multi-Author Award | Citation David Beach and Yosef Goldenberg, eds., Bach to Brahms Essays on Musical Design and Structure, University of Rochester Press., 2015. |
| Year 2015 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Boss, Jack. Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea, Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Year 2015 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Joseph N. Straus, "Harmony and Voice Leading in the Music of Stravinsky," Music Theory Spectrum 36.1 (2014) 1-33. |
| Year 2015 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Monahan, Seth. "Action and Agency Revisited," Journal of Music Theory 57.2: 321-71. |
| Year 2015 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Danuta Mirka, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. |
| Year 2014 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth. On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind, Oxford University Press, 2013. |
| Year 2014 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Martin, Nathan. "Rameau's Changing Views on Supposition and Suspension," Journal of Music Theory 56 (2012) 121-67. |
| Year 2014 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Steege, Benjamin. Helmholtz and the Modern Listener, Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
| Year 2013 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Sanguinetti, Giorgio. The Art of Partimento: History, Theory, and Practice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. |
| Year 2013 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation David Clampitt and Thomas Noll, "Modes, the Height-Width Duality, and Handschin's Tone Character," Music Theory Online 17.1 (April 2011). |
| Year 2013 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Ohriner, Mitchell. "Grouping Hierarchy and Trajectories of Pacing in Performances of Chopin's Mazurkas," Music Theory Online 18.1 (April 2012). |
| Year 2013 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Ian Bent, William Drabkin, and their teams of contributing scholars for Phase 2 of Schenker Documents Online. |
| Year 2012 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Schmalfeldt, Janet. In the Process of Becoming: Analytic and Philosophical Perspectives on Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Music, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Year 2012 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Franck, Peter. "'A Fallacious Concept': Invertible Counterpoint at the Twelfth within the Ursatz," Music Theory Spectrum 32.2 (Fall 2010): 121-44. |
| Year 2012 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Rings, Steven. Tonality and Transformation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Year 2012 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Edward Gollin and Alexander Rehding, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Year 2011 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Mirka, Danuta. Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791, Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Year 2011 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Straus, Joseph. "Voice Leading in Set-Class Space," Journal of Music Theory 49.1 (2005): 45-108. |
| Year 2011 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Levy, Benjamin. "Shades of the Studio: Electronic Influences on Ligeti's Apparitions," Perspectives of New Music 47.2 (2009): 59-87. |
| Year 2011 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Maureen Carr, Stravinsky's Pulcinella: A Facsimile of the Sources and Sketches, A-R Editions, 2010. |
| Year 2010 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Cook, Nicholas. The Schenker Project: Culture, Race, and Music Theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Year 2010 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Hanninen, Dora. "Associative Sets, Categories, and Music Analysis," Journal of Music Theory 48.2 (2004), 147-218. |
| Year 2010 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Schuijer, Michiel. Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008. |
| Year 2010 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Evan Jones, editor: Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet, 2 vol., ed. Evan Jones, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. |
| Year 2009 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Robert Gjerdingen Music in the Galant Style, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Year 2009 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Quinn, Ian. "General Equal-Tempered Harmony (Introduction and Part I)," Perspectives of New Music 44.2 (2006), 6-50, and "General Equal-Tipered Harmony: Parts II and III," Perspectives of New Music 45.1 (2007) 114-58. |
| Year 2009 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Murphy, Scott. "On Metre in the Rondo of Brahms's Op. 25," Music Analysis 26.3 (2007), 323-52. |
| Year 2008 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. |
| Year 2008 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation L. Poundie Burstein, "The Off-Tonic Return in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, and Other Works," Music Analysis 24.3 (2005), 1-43. |
| Year 2008 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Mak, Su Yin. "Schubert's Sonata Forms and the Poetics of the Lyric," Journal of Musicology 23.2 (2006), 263-306. |
| Year 2008 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, and Reception History, Katelijne Schiltz and Bonnie J. Blackburn Peeters, editors, Leuven and Belgium: Peeters, 2007. |
| Year 2007 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Huron, David. Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. |
| Year 2007 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Leach, Elizabeth Eva. "Gendering the Semitone, Sexing the Leading Tone: Fourteenth-Century Music Theory and the Directed Progression" Music Theory Spectrum 28.1 (2006), 1-21. |
| Year 2007 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Matthew Bribitzer-Stull, "The A-flat-C-E Complex: The Origin and Function of Chromatic Major Third Collections in Nineteenth-Century Music," Music Theory Spectrum 28.2 (2006), 167-90. |
| Year 2007 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Deborah Stein, editor: Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, ed. Deborah Stein, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. |
| Year 2006 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Anna Maria Busse Berger, Medieval Music and the Art of Memory, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. |
| Year 2006 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Pople, Anthony. "Using Complex Set Theory for Tonal Analysis: An Introduction to the Tonalities Project, Music Analysis. |
| Year 2006 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Berry, David Carson. "The Meaning(s) of 'Without': An Exploration of Liszt's Bagatelle ohne Tonart," 19th-Century Music 27.3 (2004), 230-62. |
| Year 2006 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation David Lewin, Studies in Music with Text, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. |
| Year 2006 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Milton Babbit, The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt, edited by Stephen Peles, with Steven Dembski, Andrew Mead, and Joseph Straus, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. |
| Year 2005 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Perlman, Marc. Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. |
| Year 2005 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Klein, Michael. "Chopin's Fourth Ballade as Musical Narrative," Music Theory Spectrum 26.1 ( 2004): 23-55. |
| Year 2005 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Hook, Julian. "Uniform Triadic Transformations," Journal of Music Theory 46.1-2 (2002), 57-126. |
| Year 2005 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Claude Palisca, editor and translator: Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, trans., ed., and introduction by Claude Palisca, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. |
| Year 2005 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Heinrich Schenker, Der Tonwille, 2 vols., edited by William Drabkin, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004-05. |
| Year 2004 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Zbikowski, Lawrence. Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. |
| Year 2004 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Cramer, Alfred. "Schoenberg's Klangfarbenmelodie: A Principle of Early Atonal Harmony," Music Theory Spectrum 24.1 (2002), 1-34. |
| Year 2004 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Quinn, Ian. "Listening to Similarity Relations," Perspectives of New Music 39.2 (2001), 108-58. |
| Year 2003 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Lerdahl, Fred. Tonal Pitch Space, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Year 2003 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation David E. Cohen, "The Imperfect Seeks its Perfection: Harmonic Progression, Directed Motion, and Aristotelian Physics," Music Theory Spectrum 23.2 (2001), 139-69. |
| Year 2003 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Temperley, David. The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001. |
| Year 2003 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, edited by Thomas Christensen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. |
| Year 2002 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Krebs, Harald. Fantasy Pieces: Metric Dissonance in the Music of Robert Schumann, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Year 2002 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Huron, David. "Tone and Voice: A Derivation of the Rules of Voice-Leading from Perceptual Principles," Music Perception 19.1 (Fall 2001), 1-64. |
| Year 2002 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Scherzinger, Martin. "Negotiating the Music-Theory/African-Music Nexus: A Political Critique of Ethnomusicological Anti-Formalism and a Strategic Analysis of the Harmonic Patterning of the Shona Mbira Song 'Nyamaropa'," Perspectives of New Music 39.1 (2001), 5-117. |
| Year 2001 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Judd, Cristle Collins. Reading Renaissance Music Theory: Hearing with the Eyes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
| Year 2001 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Morris, Robert. "Voice-Leading Spaces," Music Theory Spectrum 20.2 (1998), 175-208. |
| Year 2001 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Willner, Channan. "Sequential Expansion and Handelian Phrase Rhythm," in Schenker Studies 2, Carl Schacther and Hedi Siegel, editors, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999: 192-221. |
| Year 2000 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Mathiesen, Thomas. Apollo's Lyre, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. |
| Year 1999 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Caplin, William. Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. |
| Year 1999 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Charles J. Smith, "Musical Form and Fundamental Structure: An Investigation of Schenker's Formenlehre," Music Analysis, 15.2-3 (1996), 191-297. |
| Year 1999 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Norman Carey and David Clampitt, "Regions: A Theory of Tonal Spaces in Early Medieval Treatises," Journal of Music Theory 40.1 (1996), 113-47. |
| Year 1999 | Award Emerging Scholar Award | Citation Judd, Cristle Collins. "Josquin's Gospel Motets and Chant-Based Tonality," in Tonal Structures in Early Music, edited by Cristle Collins Judd, New York: Garland, 1998: 109-54. |
| Year 1998 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Hasty, Christopher. Meter as Rhythm, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. |
| Year 1998 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Cumming, Naomi. "The Subjectivities of 'Erbarme Dich,'" Music Analysis 16.1 (1997), 5-54. |
| Year 1998 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Snarrenberg, Robert. Schenker's Interpretive Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
| Year 1997 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Forte, Allen. American Popular Ballad, Princeton: University of Princeton Press, 1995. |
| Year 1997 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Hatten, Robert. Musical Meaning in Beethoven, Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1994. |
| Year 1997 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Cohn, Richard. "Maximally Smooth Cycles, Hexatonic Systems, and the Analysis of Late-Romantic Triadic Progressions," Music Analysis 15.1 (1996): 9-40. |
| Year 1997 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Blasius, Leslie David. Schenker's Argument and the Claims of Music Theory, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1996. |
| Year 1996 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Burnham, Scott. Beethoven Hero, Princeton: University of Princeton Press, 1995. |
| Year 1996 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Schachter, Carl. "The Triad as Place and Action," Music Theory Spectrum 17.2 (1995): 149-69. |
| Year 1996 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Galand, Joel. "Form, Genre, and Style in the Eighteenth-Century Rondo," Music Theory Spectrum 17.1 (1995): 27-52. |
| Year 1996 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Hyer, Brian. "Reimag(in)ing Riemann," Journal of Music Theory 39.1 (1995): 101-38. |
| Year 1995 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Darcy, Warren. Wagner's Das Rheingold, Oxford and New York: University of Oxford Press, 1993. |
| Year 1995 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Roeder, John. "Interacting Pulse Streams in Schoenberg's Atonal Polyphony," Music Theory Spectrum 16.2 (1994): 231-49. |
| Year 1995 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Harrison, Daniel. Harmonic Function in Tonal Music, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. |
| Year 1995 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Ian Bent, editor, Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1994 |
| Year 1994 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Christensen, Thomas. Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1993. |
| Year 1994 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Cohn, Richard. "Transpositional Combination of Beat-Class Sets in Steve Reich's Phase-Shifting Music" Perspectives of New Music 30.2 (1992): 146-77. |
| Year 1994 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation V. Kofi Agawu Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music, Princeton: University of Princeton Press, 1991. |
| Year 1993 | Award Wallace Berry Award | Citation Lester, Joel. Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge MA: University of Harvard Press, 1992. |
| Year 1993 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation John Clough and Jack Douthett, "Maximally Even Sets" Journal of Music Theory 35 (1991): 93-173. |
| Year 1993 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Kurth, Richard. "Mosaic Polyphony: Formal Balance, Imbalance, and Phrase Formation in the Prelude of Schoenberg's Suite, Op. 25," Music Theory Spectrum 14 (1992): 188-208. |
| Year 1993 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Marvin, Elizabeth West. "The Perception of Rhythm in Non-Tonal Music," Music Theory Spectrum 13 (1991): 61-78. |
| Year 1992 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Berry, Wallace. Musical Structure and Performance, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. |
| Year 1992 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Dubiel, Joseph."Three Essays on Milton Babbitt": [I] "Thick Array/Of Depth Immeasurable"; [II] "For Making This Occasion Necessary"; [III] "The Animation of Lists," Perspectives of New Music 28.2-30.1 (1990-1992). |
| Year 1992 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Michael Friedman, Ear Training for 20th-Century Music, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. |
| Year 1991 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Joseph N. Straus, Remaking the Past, Cambridge MA: University of Harvard Press, 1990. |
| Year 1991 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Korsyn, Kevin. "Schenker and Kantian Epistemology," Theoria 3 (1988): 1-58. |
| Year 1991 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation David Damschroder and David Russell Williams, Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker, Stuyvesant NY: Pendragon Press, 1990. |
| Year 1990 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Pieter C. van den Toorn, Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. |
| Year 1990 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Rothstein, William. Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music, New York: Schirmer, 1989. |
| Year 1990 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation Calvin Bower, translator: Boethius's Fundamentals of Music, trans. Calvin Bower, ed. Claude Palisca, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. |
| Year 1989 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Rothfarb, Lee. Ernst Kurth as Theorist and Analyst, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. |
| Year 1989 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Mead, Andrew. "Some Implications of the Pitch Class/Order Number Isomorphism Inherent in the Twelve-Tone System," Perspectives of New Music36.2-27.1 (1988-1989). |
| Year 1989 | Award Citation of Special Merit | Citation John Rothgeb and Jürgen Thym, translators: Heinrich Schenker, Counterpoint, trans. John Rothgeb and Jürgen Thym, New York: Schirmer, 1987. |
| Year 1988 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Morris, Robert. Composition with Pitch Classes, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. |
| Year 1988 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Bernard, Jonathan. The Music of Edgard Varèse, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. |
| Year 1987 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Cogan, Robert. New Images of Musical Sound, Cambridge MA: University of Harvard Press, 1984. |
| Year 1987 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Neumeyer, David. The Music of Paul Hindemith, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. |
| Year 1986 | Award Outstanding Publication Award | Citation Slawson, Wayne. Sound Color, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. |
| Year 1986 | Award Young Scholar Award | Citation Stephen V. Peles, "Interpretation of Sets in Multiple Dimensions," Perspectives of New Music 22 (1983-1984). |
HM: Designates Honorable Mentions.
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