The Society for Music Theory is pleased to announce its 2025 publication award winners!
Wallace Berry Award
Beaudoin, Richard. 2024. Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings. Oxford University Press.
Dodds, Michael Robert. 2023. From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory. Oxford University Press.
Ewell, Philip. 2023. On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone. University of Michigan Press.
Greenberg, Yoel. 2022. How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form. Oxford University Press.
Outstanding Publication Award
Leaman, Kara Yoo. 2022. “George Balanchine’s Art of Choreographic Musicality in Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux.” Music Theory Spectrum 44 (2): 340–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac007 Open access until Feb. 2026
Rabinovitch, Gilad, and Aaron Carter-Enyi. 2024. “Melodic Organization and Sequential Ordering of Galant Schemata.” Music Theory Online 30 (1). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.7
Shea, Nicholas, Lindsey Reymore, Christopher Wm. White, Leigh VanHandel, Ben Duinker, Matthew Zeller, and Nicole Biamonte. 2024. “Diversity in Music Corpus Studies.” Music Theory Online 30 (1). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.8
Fankhauser, Gabriel. 2024. “Displaced Cadential Six-Four Chords.” Intégral 37: 49–70. https://theory.esm.rochester.edu/integral/37-2024/fankhauser/.
Cohen, David E. 2022. "From Ramos to Rameau: Toward the Origins of the Modern Concept of Harmony." Journal of Music Theory 66 (1)1-42. https://doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9534115
Emerging Scholar Award (Book)
Maler, Anabel. 2024. Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music. Oxford University Press.
Emerging Scholar Award (Article)
Mitchell, Nathaniel. 2024. “On Meter and the Social Dynamics of Cueing in Bill Monroe’s ‘Muleskinner Blues.’” Music Theory Online 30 (3). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.3.4
Duguay, Michèle. 2022. "Analyzing Vocal Placement in Recorded Virtual Space." Music Theory Online 28 (4). https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.22.28.4/mto.22.28.4.duguay.html.
Lam, Nathan. 2024. “Pentatonic Xuangong 旋宮 Transformations in Chinese Music.” Music Theory Online 30 (1). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.1.5
Sánchez-Kisielewska, Olga. 2023. “On Figaro’s Alleged Minuet and Some Challenges and Opportunities of Topic Theory.” Music Theory Spectrum 45 (1): 89–99. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac027 Open access until Feb. 2026
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award
Baragwanath, Nicholas, and Peter Van Tour. 2024. Music Theory and Analysis 11 (1).
Public-Facing Scholarship Award
Chua, Daniel K. L. 2024. Music & Joy: Lessons on the Good Life. Yale University Press.
Capuzzo, Guy. 2024. "Simultaneous Distinct Headbanging Patterns in Heavy Metal." SMT-V 10.4. https://vimeo.com/841244670?fl=pl&fe=vl.
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award
Duinker, Ben. 2023. "Rhythmic Theory Pedagogy, Ways of Knowing, and Experiential Learning.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37 (1). https://doi.org/10.71156/2994-7073.1440
Louden, Sarah, and Adem Birson. 2024. NYU Music Theory & Aural Skills Anthologies. NYU Music Theory Resources, NYU Steinhardt Music Theory & History Program.
Maust, Paula. 2023. Expanding the Music Theory Canon: Inclusive Examples for Analysis from the Common Practice Period. State University of New York Press.
Monahan, Seth. 2022–2024. Basics of Classical Harmony & Counterpoint. YouTube playlist. YouTube. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtVmMer7Hz1H4JXHA6NGsawkkkTpnJKyI&si=rRgLWJ9cG7uwacNN.
Citation of Special Merit
Li, Edwin K. C., Chris Stover, and Anna Yu Wang, eds. 2024. "Music Theory in the Plural." Music Theory Online 30 (4).
View the Publication Awards page for more information on these awards. A list of winners in prior years can be found on the Past Publication Awards page.