2024 Publication Award Nominees
All validated nominees for 2024 publication awards are listed in the table below.
Reflects eligible nominations received as of April 12, 2024.
| Publication Information | Award Type |
|---|---|
| ACTOR EduFilms, 2022-23. https://timbreandorchestration.org/edufilms. | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Cuchna, C. & Osborn, B., interview. "In Rainbows" title analysis + Faust Arp. (Season 11, No. 7) [Audio podcast episode] in Dissect (2023). https://open.spotify.com/show/2b025hq3gJ17tQdxS3aV43 | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| DeGraf, Galen. "System and Symmetry: How to Compose like Arvo Part, Tintinnabuli Style." November 18, 2023. Video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u903Z0_Zzc. | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Gotham, Mark, Kyle Gullings, Chelsey Hamm, et al. Open music theory. Vol. 2. Minneapolis, MN: Open Textbook Library, 2021. | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Hall, Patricia. “Giving Voice to a Foxtrot from Auschwitz-Birkenau.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 3 (September 2021). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.3.9. | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Leaman, Kara Yoo. “Dance as Music in George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco.” The Society for Music Theory Videocast Journal 7, no. 2 (February 2021). https://doi.org/10.30535/smtv.7.2. | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Lehman, Frank. “How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders.” The New York Times, July 7, 2023. | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Mitchell, Nathaniel. "Variations on a Theme by K. K. Slider: Memory and Play in Animal Crossing: New Horizons." The Society for Music Theory Videocast Journal 9, no. 4 (July 2023). | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Morrison, Landon (2022). Making orchestras speak/ Making machines listen. (Season 1, No. 14) [Audio podcast episode] In SMT-Pod. Society for Music Theory (2022). https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season01/#e1.14 | Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Auerbach, Brent. "Reining in Pitch and Pitch-Class Motives: Rules for Improving Analytic Outcomes in the Tonal Theory Classroom." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37 (2023): 67-118. https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/jmtp/vol37/iss1/ | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Burns, Chelsea, William O’Hara, Marcelle Pierson, Katherine Pukinskis, Peter Smucker, and William Van Geest. “Corralling the Chorale.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 35, no. 1 (2021): 1–77. | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Galen DeGraf. November 18, 2023. Video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u903Z0_Zzc. | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Duinker, Ben. "Rhythmic Theory Pedagogy, Ways of Knowing, and Experiential Learning." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37 (2023): 35-65. https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/jmtp/vol37/iss1/ | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| England, Jennifer Shafer. "One Bite at a Time: Writing in the Theory Classroom." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37 (2023): 3-34. https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/jmtp/vol37/iss1/ | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Gotham, Mark, Kyle Gullings, and Chelsey Hamm. Open music theory. Vol. 2. Minneapolis, MN: Open Textbook Library, 2021. | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Hoag, Melissa. Expanding the canon: Black composers in the music theory classroom. New York: Routledge, 2023. | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Monahan, Seth. "Basics of Classical Harmony and Counterpoint." 2021-2023. Video, https://www.youtube.com/c/SethMonahan | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Reid, Molly. "Nonwestern Music and Decolonial Pedagogy in the Music Theory Classroom." Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 36, no. 4 (2022): 103-119. https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/jmtp/vol36/iss1/4 | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Straus, Joseph Nathan. The art of post-tonal analysis: Thirty-three graphic music analyses. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. | Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Belcher, Owen, Catrina Kim, and Alan Reese. “Public Music Theory’s Neoliberal Learning Outcomes.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 2 (June 2023). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.2.2. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Boss, Jack. “George Walker’s Piano Music: Traditional Forms in Tonal, Serial and Atonal Styles.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.3.2. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Burns, Lori. “Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 4 (December 2023). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.4.2. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Duguay, Michèle. “Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 4 (December 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.4.1. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Grant, Roger Mathew. “Colonial Galant: Three Analytical Perspectives from the Chiquitano Missions.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 75, no. 1 (2022): 129–62. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.129. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Guez, Jonathan. “Process and Pendulum in Schubert’s Expanded Type 1 Sonatas.” Music Analysis 40, no. 2 (July 2021): 147–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12172. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Gur, Golan. “Socialist Realism or Cybernetics? Music, Information Theory, and Posthumanism in the German Democratic Republic.” The Musical Quarterly 105, no. 3–4 (November 30, 2022): 357–405. https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdac008. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Honarmand, Amin. “The Subsets of Slide‐ and Parallel‐related Combinations in Twentieth‐century Music.” Music Analysis 42, no. 1 (March 2023): 74–111. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12206. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Kim, Catrina S. “Formal Excess in the Opening Movement of Fanny Hensel’s String Quartet in E♭ Major (1834).” Music Theory Spectrum 45, no. 2 (August 10, 2023): 218–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtad007. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Kozak, Mariusz. “Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?” Music Theory Online 27, no. 2 (June 2021). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.2.11. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Lee, Gavin S. “Global Philosophy of Music.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 4 (December 2023). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.4.10. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Lynch, Tosca A.C. “Unlocking the Riddles of Classical Greek Melodies I: Dorian Keys to the Harmonic Revolution of the New Music and the Hellenistic Musical Documents.” Greek and Roman Musical Studies 10, no. 2 (July 25, 2022): 383–415. https://doi.org/10.1163/22129758-bja10046. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Maggart, Alison. "The Literary Echoes in Milton Babbitt's Music." Journal of the American Musicological Society 76, no. 3 (2023): 705-784. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2023.76.3.705 | Outstanding Publication Award |
| McAdams, Stephen, Meghan Goodchild, and Kit Soden. “A Taxonomy of Orchestral Grouping Effects Derived from Principles of Auditory Perception.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.3.6. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Morrison, Landon. “Rhythm Quantization: Notes on the History of a Technocultural Practice.” The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music, December 8, 2021, 341–65. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947279.013.18. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Murphy, Scott. “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, no. 1 (March 14, 2023): 141–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10232093. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Nobile, Drew. “Alanis Morissette’s Voices.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 4 (2022). | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Posen, Thomas William. “The Interaction of Mode and Psalmody in Glarean’s Circle.” Music Theory and Analysis 10, no. 2 (October 15, 2023): 95–154. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.10.2.1. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Principi, Dylan J. “Critiquing Musical Ineffabilism: Rereading Kant’s ‘Analytic of the Beautiful.’” 19th Century Music 45, no. 3 (2022): 204-19 | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Raz, Carmel. “To ‘Fill up, Completely, the Whole Capacity of the Mind’: Listening with Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.” Music Theory Spectrum 44, no. 1 (October 6, 2021): 141–54. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtab012. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Rehding, Alexander. “Fine-Tuning a Global History of Music Theory: Divergences, Zhu Zaiyu, and Music-Theoretical Instruments.” Music Theory Spectrum 44, no. 2 (June 17, 2022): 260–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac004. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Sanchez-Behar, Alexander. “Jazz Influence and Synthesis in the Music of John Adams.” Music Theory and Analysis (MTA) 10, no. 1 (May 30, 2023): 36–69. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.10.1.2. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| See, Truman. “On Inaudible Violence and the Postcritical Musicology.” The Journal of Musicology 40, no. 2 (2023): 180–212. https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2023.40.2.180. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Temperley, David. “The Origins of Syncopation in American Popular Music.” Popular Music 40, no. 1 (February 2021): 18–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261143021000283. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Utne-Reitan, Bjørnar. “Norse Modes: On Geirr Tveitt’s Theory of Tonality.” Danish Musicology Online, Special Issue (2022): 46–69. | Outstanding Publication Award |
| Andersen, Drake. “Performance Spaces for Improvised and Notated Music.” Journal of Music Theory 67, no. 1 (March 14, 2023): 99–139. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10232081. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Donaldson, James. “Second‐order Topics and Prokofiev’s String Quartets.” Music Analysis 42, no. 2 (July 2023): 227–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12218. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Duguay, Michèle. “Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 4 (December 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.4.1. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Duinker, Ben. “Rebonds: Structural Affordances, Negotiation, and Creation.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 4 (December 2021). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.4.5. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Emmery, Laura. “Gender Identity and Gestural Representations in Jonathan Harvey’s String Quartet No. 2.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 3 (September 2021). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.3.11. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Hutchinson, Kyle. “Chromatically Altered Diminished‐seventh Chords: Reframing Function through Dissonance Resolution in Late Nineteenth‐century Tonality.” Music Analysis 41, no. 1 (March 2022): 94–144. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12185. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Lucas, Olivia R. “Performing Analysis, Performing Metal.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 4 (December 2021). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.4.8. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Maler, Anabel, and Robert Komaniecki. “Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 1 (March 2021). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.1.7. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Mitchell, Nathaniel. "Variations on a Theme by K. K. Slider: Memory and Play in Animal Crossing: New Horizons." The Society for Music Theory Videocast Journal 9, no. 4 (July 2023). http://doi.org/10.30535/smtv.9.4 | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Murphy, Nancy. “Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Self-Expressive Voice.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 3 (September 2023). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.3.5. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Piilonen, Miriam. “Music Theory and Social Media.” Essay. In The Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory. Oxford University Press, 2021. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Posen, Thomas William. “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, no. 4 (December 2023). | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Principi, Dylan J. “Critiquing Musical Ineffabilism: Rereading Kant’s ‘Analytic of the Beautiful.’” 19th Century Music 45, no. 3 (2022): 204-19 | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Raz, Carmel. “To ‘Fill up, Completely, the Whole Capacity of the Mind’: Listening with Attention in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.” Music Theory Spectrum 44, no. 1 (October 6, 2021): 141–54. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtab012. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| See, Truman. “On Inaudible Violence and the Postcritical Musicology.” The Journal of Musicology 40, no. 2 (2023): 180–212. https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2023.40.2.180. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Sullivan, James. “Extending the Parallel Multiple-Analysis Processor.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 1 (March 2023). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.1.4. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Utne-Reitan, Bjørnar. “Music Theory Pedagogy in the Nineteenth Century: Comparing Traditions of Three European Conservatories.” Journal of Music Theory 66, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 63–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9534139. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Zhang, Xieyi (Abby). “Apparently Imperfect: On the Analytical Issues of the IAC.” Music Theory Spectrum 44, no. 2 (June 3, 2022): 191–212. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac005. | Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Buchler, Michael Howard, and Gregory J. Decker, eds. Here for the hearing: Analyzing the music in Musical Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. | Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Chapkanov, Bozhidar, ed. Transformational analysis in practice: Music-Analytical Studies on composers and musicians from around the world. Vernon Press, 2023. | Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Hoag, Melissa, ed. Expanding the canon: Black composers in the music theory classroom. New York: Routledge, 2023. | Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Lee, Gavin S. K., ed. Queer ear: Remaking music theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. | Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Lett, Stephen, Leigh VanHandel, Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Patrick McCreless, Noriko Manabe, Judith Lochhead, Catrina S Kim, Sumanth Gopinath, and Clifton Boyd. “Music Theory and the SMT at 45: Perspectives on Inclusion.” Music Theory Spectrum 45, no. 1 (December 15, 2022): 100–167. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac029. | Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Levy, Benjamin R., and Laura Emmery. “Archival Research in Music.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 3 (September 2021). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.27.3.4. | Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth, Psyche Loui, and Deirdre Loughridge. The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the past and imagining the future. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023. | Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Shuster, Lawrence Beaumont, Somangshu Mukherji, and Noé Dinnerstein. Trends in world music analysis: New directions in world music analysis. London: Routledge, 2022. | Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Carter, Elliott, and Laura V. Emmery. Elliott Carter speaks: Unpublished lectures. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. | Citation of Special Merit |
| Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. Musical Analyses and Musical Exegisis. Boydell & Brewer, 2021. | Citation of Special Merit |
| Willner, Channan. Channan WiIlner: A Website Dedicated to the Study and Analysis of 18th-Century Phrase Rhythm, 2021-23. http://www.channanwillner.com/. | Citation of Special Merit |
| Bernstein, Zachary. Thinking in and about music: Analytical Reflections on Milton Babbitt’s music and thought. Oxford University Press, 2021. | Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Chandler, Oliver. A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956-1983 (GFA Monographs). Vol. 4. Digital Commons @ DU, 2023. | Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Motazedian, Táhirih. Key constellations. interpreting tonality in film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. | Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Murphy, Nancy. Times a-changin’: Flexible meter as self-expression in singer-songwriter music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023. | Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Palfy, Cora S. Musical Agency and the social listener. S.l.: ROUTLEDGE, 2023. | Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Salem, Joseph. Pierre Boulez: The Formative Years. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023. | Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Wente, Allison Rebecca. Player piano and musical labor: The ghost in the Machine. Routledge, 2022. | Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Zazulia, Emily. Where sight meets sound: The poetics of late-medieval music writing. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021. | Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Beaudoin, Richard. Sounds as they are: The unwritten music in classical recordings. Oxford University Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Chattah, Juan. Film music: Cognition to interpretation. New York: Routledge, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Cheng, Ya-Hui. The evolution of Chinese popular music. modernization and globalization, 1927 to the present. Andover: Routledge Ltd, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Chua, Daniel K.L., and Alexander Rehding. Alien listening: Voyager’s golden record and music from Earth. New York, USA: Zone Books, 2022. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Clement, Brett. Rock tonality amplified a theory of modality, harmonic function, and tonal hierarchy. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Dodds, Michael Robert. From modes to keys in early modern music theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Ewell, Philip. On music theory and making music more welcoming for everyone. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Greenberg, Yoel. How sonata forms: A bottom-up approach to musical form. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Isaacson, Eric. Visualizing Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Motazedian, Táhirih. Key constellations. interpreting tonality in film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Rodgers, Stephen. The songs of Clara Schumann. Cambridge University Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Rothstein, William. Musical language of Italian opera, 1813-1859. Oxford University Press, 2022. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Salem, Joseph. Pierre Boulez: The Formative Years. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Shelley, Braxton D. An eternal pitch: Bishop G. E. Patterson, broadcast religion, and the afterlives of ecstasy. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Shupe, Abigail. War and death in the music of George Crumb: A crisis of collective memory. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Steinbeck, Paul. Sound experiments: The music of the aacm. University of Chicago Press, 2023. | Wallace Berry Award |
| Zazulia, Emily. Where sight meets sound: The poetics of late-medieval music writing. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021. | Wallace Berry Award |
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