2025 Publication Award Nominees

All validated nominees for 2025 publication awards as of March 19, 2025, are listed in the table below.

Publication Information	Award Type
Lam, Nathan, & Chang, Jihye, piano. Symmetricon. NathanLamMusic, September 2024. https://NathanLam.com/music.	Citation of Special Merit
Li, Edwin K. C., Chris Stover, and Anna Yu Wang, eds. "Music Theory in the Plural." Music Theory Online 30, no. 4. (December 2024).	Citation of Special Merit
Principi, Dylan. “Rethinking Topic Theory: An Essay on the Recent History of a Music Theory.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 1 (March 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.9.	Citation of Special Merit
Willner, Channan. "On Hemiolic Resonance." Self-published (2024).	Citation of Special Merit
Cannon-Brown, Lee. “Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 4 (2024).	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Donaldson, James. “Sketching Musical Meaning? Case Studies from Ligeti’s Late Works.” The Journal of Musicology 41, no. 3 (2024): 293–333. https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2024.41.3.293.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Duguay, Michéle. "Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space." Music Theory Online 28, no. 4 (2022). https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.22.28.4/mto.22.28.4.duguay.html.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Frederick, Leah. “Diatonic Voice-Leading Transformations.” Music Theory Spectrum 46, no. 1 (November 6, 2023): 37–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtad017.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Grasso, Julianne. “Affective Zones: The Spaces of Possibility in Video Game Music.” Music and the Moving Image 17, no. 3 (2024): 3–19. https://doi.org/10.5406/19407610.17.3.01.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Keep, David. “The Voice of Enigma: Intertextuality in “Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai.” Intégral, 2003, 36 (n.d.): 175–91.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Lam, Nathan L. “Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 1 (March 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.5.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Li, Edwin K. C. “Theorizing Affect in Mahler.” Music & Letters 105, no. 3 (June 11, 2024): 313–36. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcae035.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Miller, Brian. “Digital Scores, Algorithmic Agents, Encoded Ontologies: On the Objects of Musical Computation.” Chapter. In Material Cultures of Music Notation: New Perspectives on Musical Inscription, edited by Floris Schuiling and Emily Payne. Routledge, 2022.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Mitchell, Nathaniel. “On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s ‘Muleskinner Blues.’” Music Theory Online 30, no. 3 (September 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.3.4.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Momii, Toru. “Performing Te: Gesture and Timbre in Fujikura Dai’s Neo for Solo Shamisen.” Music Theory Spectrum 46, no. 2 (2024): 185–207. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtae002.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Ovenden, Philippa. “Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia’s Platonist Model of Musical Time.” Early Music History 41 (October 2022): 303–45. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261127923000013.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Smith, Eron. “Prosodic Dissonance.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 2 (June 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.2.6.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Torres-Rivera, Noel. “Politics, Technology, and Interdisciplinarity at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM): Rafael Aponte-Ledée’s Presagio de Pájaros Muertos (1966).” Journal of the American Musicological Society 77, no. 3 (2024): 723–67. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2024.77.3.723.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Utne-Reitan, Bjørnar. “Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 3 (September 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.3.7.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Venturino, Stephanie. “Who Is Allowed to Be a Music Theorist? Sarah Mary Fitton and Conversations on Harmony (1855).” Music Theory Online 30, no. 4 (2024).	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Yu Wang, Anna. “Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 3 (September 2023). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.3.7.	Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Maler, Anabel. Seeing voices: Analyzing sign language music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.	Emerging Scholar Award (Book)
Maust, Paula. Expanding the music theory canon: Inclusive examples for analysis from the common practice period. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024.	Emerging Scholar Award (Book)
Piilonen, Miriam. Theorizing music evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the limits of the human. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.	Emerging Scholar Award (Book)
Everett, Yayoi Uno, ed. Contemporary Opera in Flux. Ann Arbor Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2024.	Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
Lehman, Frank, ed. Film music analysis: Studying the score. New York, NY: Routledge, 2024.	Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
Li, Edwin K. C., Chris Stover, and Anna Yu Wang, eds. "Music Theory in the Plural." Music Theory Online 30, no. 4. (December 2024).	Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
Remeš, Derek, ed. Music Theory and Analysis 11, no. 1 (May 2024).	Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
Babyak, Tekla. “Living Forever on Earth: Philosophies of Temporal Eternity in Beethoven’s Ops. 110 and 132.” 19th-Century Music 47, no. 2 (2023): 111–28. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2023.47.2.111.	Outstanding Publication 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
Bhogal, Gurminder Kaur. “Tracking the Harmonium from Christian Missionary Hymns to Sikh Kirtan.” Yale Journal of Music & Religion 8, no. 2 (June 23, 2023). https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231x.1240.	Outstanding Publication Award
Cannon-Brown, Lee. “Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 4 (2024).	Outstanding Publication Award
De Souza, Jonathan. “Melodic Transformation in George Garzone’s Triadic Chromatic Approach; or, Jazz, Math, and Basket Weaving.” Music Theory Spectrum 44, no. 2 (May 11, 2022): 213–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac003.	Outstanding Publication Award
Diaz, Juan Diego, and Alex Rossi. “Singing in Tune: Berimbau Tuning and Song Mode in Capoeira (1937-1978).” Analytical Approaches to World Music 12, no. 1 (2024): 1–117.	Outstanding Publication Award
Duguay, Michéle. "Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space." Music Theory Online 28, no. 4 (2022). https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.22.28.4/mto.22.28.4.duguay.html.	Outstanding Publication Award
Fankhauser, Gabriel. “Displaced Cadential Six-Four Chords.” Intégral 37 (2024): 49–70.	Outstanding Publication Award
Hutchinson, Kyle. “The Predominant Six-Four in the Late Music of Richard Strauss.” Music Theory Spectrum 45, no. 1 (February 8, 2023): 20–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac018.	Outstanding Publication Award
Lam, Nathan L. “Pentatonic Xuangong 宮 Transformations in Chinese Music.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 1 (March 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.5.	Outstanding Publication Award
Lee, Gavin S. “Hermeneutic Limits; or, When Not to Theorize: Notes for Interpreting Our Phoenix by Trans Indigenous Mexican-American Composer Mari Esabel Valverde.” Music Theory Spectrum 46, no. 2 (2024): 208–25. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtae004.	Outstanding Publication Award
Li, Edwin K. C. “Theorizing Affect in Mahler.” Music & Letters 105, no. 3 (June 11, 2024): 313–36. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcae035.	Outstanding Publication Award
Lindhorst, Jonathan. “Tone-Clock Theory Explained. Mapping the Chromatic Tonalities.” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie [Journal of the German-Speaking Society of Music Theory] 21, no. 2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.31751/1217.	Outstanding Publication Award
Long, Megan Kaes. “Hexachordal Solmization and Syllable-Invariant Counterpoint in the Vocal Music of William Byrd.” Music Theory Spectrum 45, no. 2 (July 17, 2023): 284–308. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtad010.	Outstanding Publication Award
Miller, Brian. “Digital Scores, Algorithmic Agents, Encoded Ontologies: On the Objects of Musical Computation.” Chapter. In Material Cultures of Music Notation: New Perspectives on Musical Inscription, edited by Floris Schuiling and Emily Payne. Routledge, 2022.	Outstanding Publication Award
Mitchell, Nathaniel. “On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s ‘Muleskinner Blues.’” Music Theory Online 30, no. 3 (September 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.3.4.	Outstanding Publication Award
Momii, Toru. “Performing Te: Gesture and Timbre in Fujikura Dai’s Neo for Solo Shamisen.” Music Theory Spectrum 46, no. 2 (2024): 185–207. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtae002.	Outstanding Publication Award
Neidhöfer, Christoph. “Gesture through the Lens of Pluridimensional Serialism in the Music of Camillo Togni.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 2 (June 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.2.5.	Outstanding Publication Award
Osborn, Brad. "Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDM." Intégral 36 (2023): 35-54.	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
Sutcliffe, W. Dean. “What Is Haydn Doing in a John Field Nocturne?” Music Analysis 42, no. 2 (May 29, 2023): 163–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12208.	Outstanding Publication Award
Utne-Reitan, Bjørnar. “Ernst Friedrich Richter and the Birth of Modern Music Theory Pedagogy.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 3 (September 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.3.7.	Outstanding Publication Award
Ware, Evan. “No, They’re Not Gonna Change My Mind: Anti-Fandom and the Enterprise Title Cue.” Chapter. In Music In Star Trek: Sound, Utopia, and the Future, edited by Jessica Getman, Brooke McCorkle-Okazaki, and Evan Ware, 199–231. New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.	Outstanding Publication Award
Yu Wang, Anna. “Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 3 (September 2023). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.3.7.	Outstanding Publication Award
DeGraf, Galen, "How to Transform and Develop Musical Ideas." Posted 2024, by Galen DeGraf, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ45M4ipLJwS9Yd-xzN5jUwCQk0aZIuPJ	Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Maust, Paula. Expanding the music theory canon: Inclusive examples for analysis from the common practice period. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024.	Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Paraschivescu, Nicoleta. The partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello: Pedagogy and practice. Translated by Chris Walton. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022.	Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Remeš, Derek. “Historical Music Theory - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Derek K. Remeš.” Music Theory Research and Pedagogy, October 10, 2024. https://derekremes.com/pedagogy/historicalmusictheory/.	Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Cannon-Brown, Lee. “Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 4 (2024).	Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Capuzzo, Guy. "Simultaneous Distinct Headbanging Patterns in Heavy Metal." SMT-V 10.4 (July 2024).	Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Chattah, Juan. Film music cognition to interpretation. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.	Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Cuchna, C. & Osborn, B., interview. "Radiohead: In Rainbows"(Season 11, ep. 1) [Audio podcast episode] in Dissect (2023). https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/dissect/2023/09/26/s11e1-radiohead-in-rainbows	Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Lam, Nathan, & Chang, Jihye, piano. Symmetricon. NathanLamMusic, September 2024. https://NathanLam.com/music.	Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Maust, Paula. Expanding the music theory canon: Inclusive examples for analysis from the common practice period. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024.	Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Mitchell, Nathaniel. "Variations on a Theme by K. K. Slider: Memory and Play in Animal Crossing: New Horizons." SMT-V 9, no. 4 (July 2023).	Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Osborn, Brad. “Dual Leading-Tone Loops in Recent Dramatic Television.” SMT-V 10, no. 2 (March 2024).	Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Beaudoin, Richard. Sounds as they are: The Unwritten Music in Classical Recordings. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
Caplin, William Earl. Cadence: A study of closure in tonal music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
Chattah, Juan. Film music cognition to interpretation. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
Dodds, Michael Robert. From modes to keys in early modern music theory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
Everett, Walter. Sex and gender in pop. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.	Wallace Berry Award
Greenberg, Yoel. How sonata forms: A bottom-up approach to musical form. Oxford University Press, 2022.	Wallace Berry Award
Isaacson, Eric J. Visualizing Music. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2023.	Wallace Berry Award
Koozin, Timothy. Embodied expression in popular music: A theory of musical gesture and agency. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
Maler, Anabel. Seeing voices: Analyzing sign language music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
McAdams, Stephen. Perception and cognition of music: The sorbonne lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
McFarland, Mark John. The musical relationship between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. Rochester, NY, USA, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: University of Rochester Press ; Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
Paraschivescu, Nicoleta. The partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello: Pedagogy and practice. Translated by Chris Walton. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022.	Wallace Berry Award
Rink, John. Music in profile: Twelve performance studies. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
Veal, Michael E. Living space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and free jazz, from analog to digital. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award
Weaver, Andrew H. Narrative and Robert Schumann’s songs: A new approach to the romantic lied. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2024.	Wallace Berry Award

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March 24, 2025