All validated nominees for 2025 publication awards as of April 1, 2025, are listed in the table below. 

 

 

Publication Information Award Type
Husarik, Stephen. “Musikalien Register NR 9.” Archduke Rudolph's Musikalien Register Nr 9: an online database (2024). https://uafslibrary.com/Husarik2/.  Citation of Special Merit
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
Alcalde, Bruno. “Mixture Strategies: An Analytical Framework for Musical Hybridity.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 1 (March 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.1.1.  Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
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)
Duinker, Ben. “Interpretive Difficulty and Emergent Structure in Contemporary Music.” Journal of Music Theory 66, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 223–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9930901.  Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Ferrandino, Matthew. "Multi-Centric Complexes in Pop-Rock Music." Intégral 35 (2022): 27-43. 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)
Gardner, Samuel, and Nicholas J. Shea. “Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.3.3.  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)
Hardman, Kristi. “The Continua of Sound Qualities for Tanya Tagaq’s Katajjaq Sounds.” Chapter. In Trends in World Music Analysis: New Directions in World Music Analysis, edited by Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, and Noé Dinnerstein. London: Routledge, 2024.  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)
Li, Edwin, Aaron Carter-Ényi, and David Àìná. "Towards a Cross-Cultural Theory of Tone-Tune Mapping: A Comparative Study of Cantonese and Yorùbá." Analytical Approaches to World Music 12, no. 1 (2024). Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Luong, Vivian. “Animating Indeterminate Agency.” Chapter. In Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory, edited by Gavin S. K. Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.  Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Mayr, Desirée. “Leopoldo Miguéz’s Nocturnes Opp.10 and 20/1: Political Context and Stylistic Analysis in the ‘City of Pianos.’” Music Theory and Analysis 10, no. 1 (May 30, 2023): 1–36. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.10.1.1.  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)
O’Hara, William. “The Techne of YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.3.9.  Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Ovenden, Philippa. “Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia’s Platonist Model of Musical Time.” Early Music History 41 (2023): 303–45. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261127923000013.  Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Sánchez-Kisielewska, Olga. “On Figaro’s Alleged Minuet and Some Challenges and Opportunities of Topic Theory.” Music Theory Spectrum 45, no. 1 (January 23, 2023): 89–99. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac027.  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)
Walden, Daniel K. “The Global Tonnetz.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 77, no. 2 (2024): 447–509. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2024.77.2.447.  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)
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)
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, 2023. 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)
Sofer, Daniele Shlomit. Sex sounds: Vectors of difference in electronic music. MIT Press, 2022. Emerging Scholar Award (Book)
Wente, Allison Rebecca. Player piano and musical labor: The ghost in the Machine. S.l.: Routledge, 2022.  Emerging Scholar Award (Book)
Chapkanov, Bozhidar, ed. Transformational analysis in practice: Music-Analytical Studies on composers and musicians from around the world. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2024. Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
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
Lee, Gavin S. K., ed. Queer ear: Remaking music theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023.  Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
Remeš, Derek, ed. Music theory and analysis 11, no. 1 (May 2024). Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
Shuster, Lawrence Beaumont, Somangshu Mukherji, and Noé Dinnerstein, eds. Trends in world music analysis: New directions in world music analysis. London: Routledge, 2022.  Outstanding Multi-Author Collection
Alcalde, Bruno. “Mixture Strategies: An Analytical Framework for Musical Hybridity.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 1 (March 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.1.1.  Outstanding Publication Award
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 (2022). https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231x.1240. Outstanding Publication Award
Boss, Jack. “George Walker’s Piano Music.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.3.2.  Outstanding Publication Award
Boyle, Matthew L. “The Serenade Topic, the Serenade Construction, and the Creation of Amorous Sweetness in Ottocento Opera.” Journal of Music Theory 68, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-10974683.  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
Chung, Andrew J. "Early Modern Tuning, Temperament, and the Natural  Philosophy of Empire." Journal of Music Theory 68, no. 2 (October 2024): 315-356. Outstanding Publication Award
Cohen, David E. "From Ramos to Rameau: Toward the Origins of the Modern Concept of Harmony." Journal of Music Theory 66, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 1-42. Outstanding Publication Award
Cook, Karen M. “8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma’s Soundtrack to Faxanadu.” Music Theory Online 29, no. 3 (September 2023). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.29.3.1.  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
Gardner, Samuel, and Nicholas J. Shea. “Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.3.3.  Outstanding Publication Award
Hardman, Kristi. “The Continua of Sound Qualities for Tanya Tagaq’s Katajjaq Sounds.” Chapter. In Trends in World Music Analysis: New Directions in World Music Analysis, edited by Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, and Noé Dinnerstein. London: Routledge, 2022.  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
Leaman, Kara Yoo. “George Balanchine’s Art of Choreographic Musicality in Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux.” Music Theory Spectrum 44, no. 2 (May 31, 2022): 340–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac007.  Outstanding Publication Award
Lee, Dickie. “A Speedrun within a Rock Show: Interpreting Bit Brigade’s Video Game Performance Art and Analyzing Their Speedrun of Zelda.” Journal of Sound and Music in Games 5, no. 4 (2024): 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsmg.2024.5.4.1.  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
Li, Edwin, Aaron Carter-Ényi, and David Àìná. "Towards a Cross-Cultural Theory of Tone-Tune Mapping: A Comparative Study of Cantonese and Yorùbá." Analytical Approaches to World Music 12, no. 1 (2024). 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
Mayr, Desirée. “Neo-Riemannian Analysis in the Music of Leopoldo Miguéz: First Movement of the Violin Sonata Op. 14 as a Case Study.” Chapter. In Transformational Analysis in Practice: Music-Analytical Studies on Composers and Musicians from around the World, edited by Bozhidar Chapkanov. Vernon Press, 2024. 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
Mutch, Caleb. “How the Triad Took (a) Root.” Journal of Music Theory 66, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 43–62. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9534127.  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
Nobile, Drew F. “Teleology in Verse–Prechorus–Chorus Form, 1965–2020.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.3.8.  Outstanding Publication Award
O’Hara, William. “The Techne of YouTube Performance: Musical Structure, Extended Techniques, and Custom Instruments in Solo Pop Covers.” Music Theory Online 28, no. 3 (September 2022). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.28.3.9.  Outstanding Publication Award
Osborn, Brad. "Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDM." Intégral 36 (2023): 35-54. Outstanding Publication Award
Parkhurst, Bryan J. “Sins of the Father: Schenker, Schenkerism and Ewell’s On Music Theory.” Music Analysis 43, no. 1 (March 2024): 136–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12226.  Outstanding Publication Award
Rabinovitch, Gilad, and Aaron Carter-Enyi. “Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 1 (March 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.7.  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
Shea, Nicholas, Lindsey Reymore, Christopher Wm. White, Leigh VanHandel, Ben Duinker, and Nicole Biamonte. “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 1 (March 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.8.  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
Walden, Daniel K. “The Global Tonnetz.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 77, no. 2 (2024): 447–509. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2024.77.2.447.  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
Duinker, Ben. “Rhythmic Theory Pedagogy, Ways of Knowing, and Experiential Learning.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37, no. 1 (January 1, 2023). https://doi.org/10.71156/2994-7073.1440.  Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Louden, Sarah, and Adem Birson. "NYU Music Theory & Aural Skills Anthologies."  NYU Music Theory Resources, NYU Steinhardt Music Theory & History Program (2024). 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, 2023. Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Monahan, Seth. "Basics of Classical Harmony & Counterpoint." Posted 2022-2024, by Seth Monahan, YouTube. www.youtube.com/c/sethmonahan 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
Reid, Molly. “Nonwestern Music and Decolonial Pedagogy in the Music Theory Classroom.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 36, no. 1 (January 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.71156/2994-7073.1408.  Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Thomas, Paul, Jenn Weaver, and Ben Graf, hosts. Note Doctors Podcast   Thomas, Paul, Jenn Weaver, and Ben Graf. Note Doctors Podcast. 2022-2024. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/note-doctors/id1530735460 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
Chua, Daniel K. L. Music & Joy: Lessons on the good life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 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
Ferrandino, Matthew. "Sonic Identity, Imitation, and Critical Listening in Popular Music." SMT-Pod 1, Ep. 5 (February 10, 2022). https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season01/e1.5/.  Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Ferrandino, Matthew, and Frank Nawrot. "Tonal Polymodality in Tool's Aenima. " SMT-Pod 2, Ep. 2 (February 2, 2023). https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season02/e2.2/ Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Lam, Nathan, & Chang, Jihye, piano. Symmetricon. NathanLamMusic, September 2024. https://NathanLam.com/music. Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Lee, Dickie. “A Speedrun within a Rock Show: Interpreting Bit Brigade’s Video Game Performance Art and Analyzing Their Speedrun of Zelda.” Journal of Sound and Music in Games 5, no. 4 (2024): 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsmg.2024.5.4.1.  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, 2023. 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 (2023). 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
Chua, Daniel K. L. Music & Joy: Lessons on the good life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024.  Wallace Berry Award
Clement, Brett. Rock tonality amplified: A theory of modality, harmonic function, and tonal hierarchy. S.l.: Routledge, 2023.  Wallace Berry Award
Dodds, Michael Robert. From modes to keys in early modern music theory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023.  Wallace Berry Award
Everett, Walter. Sex and gender in pop. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 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
Gallope, Michael. The musician as philosopher: New York's vernacular avant-garde, 1958-1978. University of Chicago Press, 2024.  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, 2023. Wallace Berry Award
Rodgers, Stephen. The songs of Clara Schumann. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Wallace Berry Award
Rusch, René. Schubert's instrumental music and poetics of interpretation. Indiana University Press, 2023. Wallace Berry Award
Sofer, Daniele Shlomit. Sex sounds: Vectors of difference in electronic music. MIT Press, 2022. 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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