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