| 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 |
| Bandy, Dorian. “When Is the Brilliant Style Not the Brilliant Style? Topical Mention, Ambivalence, and Negation in Mozart and Beethoven.” The Journal of Musicology 42, no. 4 (2025): 379–423. https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2025.42.4.379. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Barna, Alyssa, and Caroline McLaughlin. “Vocal Production, Mimesis, and Social Media in Bedroom Pop.” Music Theory Online 30, no. 4 (December 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.4.1. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Cobb, Nathan. “Switch up the Groove.” Music Theory Online 31, no. 2 (June 2025). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.31.2.2. |
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) |
| 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) |
| Hilewicz, Orit. “Luciano Berio’s Compositional Poetics as Performance: Continuo for Orchestra and Ekphrasis (Continuo II).” Perspectives of New Music 62, no. 1 (December 2024): 83–136. https://doi.org/10.1353/pnm.2024.a966471. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Hottle, Rachel. “The Embodied Folk Guitar of Elizabeth Cotten.” Music Theory Online 31, no. 3 (September 2025). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.31.3.2. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Keep, David. “The Voice of Enigma.” Intégral 36 (2023): 175–92. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Lawrence, John Y. “Lyricist as Analyst: Rhyme Scheme as Music-Setting in the Great American Songbook.” Music Theory Spectrum 46, no. 1 (December 24, 2023): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtad015. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Luong, Vivian. “Redrawing Analytical Lines.” Music Theory Online 31, no. 1 (March 2025). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.31.1.3. |
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) |
| Piilonen, Miriam. “How Music Theory Went Online.” Music Theory Spectrum 47, no. 1 (2025): 57–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtaf002. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Reed, Jacob. “Kant, Coleridge, and The ‘Moonlight’ Sonata: Imagination, Fantasy, and Fantasies in Beethoven’s Time.” 19th-Century Music 48, no. 3 (2025): 116–39. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2025.48.3.116. |
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) |
| 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 (December 2024). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.4.4. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Venturino, Stephanie. “Beyond the Rhine: Harmonic Dualism in Vincent d’Indy’s Cours de Composition Musicale.” Theoria 28 (2024): 81–118. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Article) |
| Bandy, Dorian Komanoff. Mozart the performer: Variations on the showman’s art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Bourne, Janet. Who listens?: Experience, cognition, and musical meaning. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Burns, Chelsea. The exotic self: Mexican and Brazilian modernists abroad and at home. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Hutchinson, Kyle. Processual tonality and the psychoacoustics of chromaticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Laws-Nicola, T.J. The sonic gaze: Hearing multimedia critically. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. |
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) |
| Reece, Frederick. Forgery in musical composition: Aesthetics, history, and the canon. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Reenan, Sam. Symphonic spectacles: Form, identity, and hybridity in the early twentieth century. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Schartmann, Andrew. Analyzing NES Music: Harmony, form, and the art of Technological Constraint. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2025. |
Emerging Scholar Award (Book) |
| Bauer, Amy Marie, Liam Cagney, and William Mason, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Berger, Anna Maria Busse, and Henry Spiller, eds. Missionaries, anthropologists, and music in the Indonesian Archipelago. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Bentley, Christa Anne, Kate Galloway, and Paula Harper, eds. Taylor Swift: The Star, the songs, the fans. New York, NY: Routledge, 2025. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Burns, Lori, and Ciro Scotto, eds. The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of structure, expression, and production. New York, NY: Routledge, 2025. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Emmery, Laura, and Pwyll ap Siôn, eds. “Minimalist Music in Eastern Europe: An Introduction.” Contemporary Music Review 43, no. 2–4 (July 3, 2024): 169–559. https://doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2025.2574144. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Kelly, Barbara L., and David J. Code, eds. Debussy Studies 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Lehman, Frank, ed. Film music analysis: Studying the score. New York, NY: Routledge, 2024. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Loeffert, Kimberly Goddard, and John Peterson, eds. Modeling musical analysis. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Rodgers, Stephen, ed. “Public Music Theory.” Music Theory Spectrum 47, no. 1 (2025): 1–90. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Shlomit Sofer, Danielle, ed. “Colloquy Review: Philip Ewell, On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone.” Journal of Musicological Research 44, no. 2–3 (2025): 149–267 |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Swinkin, Jeffrey, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Vande Moortele, Steven, ed. Wagner Studies. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2025. |
Outstanding Multi-Author Collection |
| Babyak, Tekla. “Joseph Joachim’s Cadenzas as a Site of Performative and Compositional Virtuosity.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review 22, no. 1 (October 29, 2024): 35–62. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409824000193. |
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 |
| Byros, Vasili. “Mining for Meaning with Late Beethoven: Cultural Units, Dialogic Form, and the Hermeneutic Project.” Essay. In Musical Meaning and Interpretation: Perspectives, Reflections, Critique, edited by Michael J. Puri, Jason Geary, and Seth Monahan, 155–91. Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Capuzzo, Guy. “Texture, Rhythmic Synchrony, and Tonal Fusion in Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, in for a Pound.” Music Theory Online 31, no. 2 (June 2025). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.31.2.1. |
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 |
| de Souza, Jonathan. “Music, Mind, and Body after Merleau-Ponty.” Essay. In The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music, edited by Jonathan de Souza. Oxford University Press, 2024. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Duguay, Michèle. “‘They Came Out with Bach’s Technique, But They Were My Songs’: Listening to Stylistic Hybridity in Nina Simone’s ’Love Me Or Leave Me.” Journal of the Society for American Music , 331-57., 18, no. 4 (2024): 331–57. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752196324000415. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Guez, Jonathan. “What Schubert Learned from Goethe.” Goethe Yearbook 32, December 31, 2025, 165–90. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805437437-011. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Hannaford, Marc E. “Eric Dolphy’s and Yusef Lateef’s Synthetic Formations.” Music Theory Online 31, no. 2 (June 2025). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.31.2.4. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Hartman, Elizabeth, and Sumanth Gopinath. “Sweeping Strands, Liquid Fosse: Choreographing Water at the Fountains of Bellagio.” Essay. In Choreomusicology: Dialogues in Music and Dance, edited by Samuel N. Dorf and Helen Julia Minors, 72–102. New York, NY: Routledge, 2025. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Hilewicz, Orit. “Luciano Berio’s Compositional Poetics as Performance: Continuo for Orchestra and Ekphrasis (Continuo II).” Perspectives of New Music 62, no. 1 (December 2024): 83–136. https://doi.org/10.1353/pnm.2024.a966471. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Hutchinson, Kyle. “Pendular Thirds and Pentatonic Parallelisms: Intersecting Black Vernacular and Neo-Romantic Idioms in the Second Movement of Florence Price.” Integral 36 (2023): 163–74. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Horton, Julian, and Peter Smith. “Correction to: Corpus Studies, Sonata Typology, and the Nineteenth-Century Violin Concerto: Viotti, Saint-Saëns, and the Challenge of Recapitulatory Compression.” Music Theory Spectrum 47, no. 2 (2025): 297–297. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtaf023. |
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 |
| Lawrence, John Y. “Lyricist as Analyst: Rhyme Scheme as Music-Setting in the Great American Songbook.” Music Theory Spectrum 46, no. 1 (December 24, 2023): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtad015. |
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 |
| Malin, Yonatan, and Daniel Shanahan. 2025. "Modes in Klezmer Music: A Corpus Study Based on Beregovski's Jewish Instrumental Folk Music." Music Theory Online 31 (3). |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Martin, Nathan John. “Corpus Studies and ‘Close Listening.’” Music Analysis 43, no. 2 (July 2024): 191–246. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12229. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Morrison, Landon. “Timbre Space: On the Flat History of a Multidimensional Metaphor.” Music & Science 7 (January 2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043241268720. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Mutch, Caleb. “Against the Monochord.” Music Theory Online 31, no. 4 (December 2025). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.31.4.6. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Osborn, Brad. "Formal Functions and Rotations in Top-40 EDM." Intégral 36 (2023): 35-54. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Piilonen, Miriam. “How Music Theory Went Online.” Music Theory Spectrum 47, no. 1 (2025): 57–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtaf002. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Reed, Jacob. “Kant, Coleridge, and The ‘Moonlight’ Sonata: Imagination, Fantasy, and Fantasies in Beethoven’s Time.” 19th-Century Music 48, no. 3 (2025): 116–39. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2025.48.3.116. |
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 |
| Waltz, Sarah Clemmens. “E-Flat Minor.” Journal of the Royal Musical Association 150, no. 2 (October 20, 2025): 573–611. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2025.10052. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Wu, Yi-Cheng Daniel. “Stage-Speech Melody: Musicality, Contour Transformations, and Dramatic Narrative in Yao Chen’s Kunqü Opera Pipa Plays Opera (2015).” Music Theory Spectrum 47, no. 2 (2025): 208–41. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtaf009. |
Outstanding Publication Award |
| Barna, Alyssa. “‘Duet Me’: Music Theory Pedagogy in the Age of Social Media.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 38, no. 1 (January 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.71156/2994-7073.1457. |
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. |
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Bhogal, Gurminder Kaur. Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys: Instruments, Theories, Technologies. Self-published, 2025. https://sikhkirtananditsjourneys.wordpress.com/ |
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| de Clercq, Trevor. The practice of popular music: Understanding harmony, rhythm, melody, and form in commercial songwriting. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. |
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Hudson, Stephen S. “Inclusive, Student-Centered Keyboard Pedagogy.” Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 9, no. 1 (December 19, 2025). https://doi.org/10.18061/esm.6975. |
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Jonker, Alexandrea, and Peter Schubert. "Idiomatic Improvisation: Where Theory Meets Aural Skills." SMT-Pod 4, Ep. 14 (July 10, 2025). https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season04/e4.14/ |
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Q, Mazbou. "Advanced Course Unit 1: Polymetricism In Rap." https://www.mazbouq.com/advanced-course-unit-1-info. (2024) |
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Roush, Katrina. “Applications of Information Literacy to Teaching Independent Music Analysis.” Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 37, no. 1 (March 1, 2024). https://doi.org/10.71156/2994-7073.1446. |
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Rush, Toby W., and Stefanie Acevedo. “Deceptive Gestures: Lies Our ‘Diverse’ Curriculum Is Telling.” Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy 9, no. 1 (December 19, 2025). https://doi.org/10.18061/esm.6981. |
Pedagogy of Music Theory Award |
| Bangura, Lydia. "Her Music Academia." Posted 2023-2025, by Lydia Bangura. https://www.hermusicacademia.com/podcast. |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Bourne, Janet. Who listens?: Experience, cognition, and musical meaning. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Brown, Jenine. “The Emotional Impact of the Double Upbeat.” SMT-Pod 2, no. 5 (February 23, 2023). https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season02/e2.5/ |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Chattah, Juan. Film music: Cognition to interpretation. New York, NY: Routledge, 2024. |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Hannan, Calder. "Riff Analysis 069 - Meshuggah 'In Death' Is Death." Posted May 24, 2024, by Calder Hannen, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cTzZ0bXqU |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Ludwig, Alex. Hearing death at the movies: Film music and the long history of The dies irae. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. |
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 Post-Millennial Pop/Rock." SMT-Pod 4, Ep. 8 (May 29, 2025). https://smt-pod.org/episodes/season04/e4.8/ |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Q, Mazbou. "Advanced Course Unit 1: Polymetricism In Rap." https://www.mazbouq.com/advanced-course-unit-1-info. (2024) |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Rabinovitch, Gilad. "Reconstructing a Nineteenth-Century Fantasy: Between Model Composition and Reimagining Improvisation."SMT-V 11, no. 6 (Nov 2025). |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Rings, Steven. What did you hear?: The music of Bob Dylan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Rodgers, Stephen. "Resounding Verse, a podcast about poetry and song." (2023-2024) https://resoundingverse.buzzsprout.com |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Rodgers, Stephen, ed. “Public Music Theory.” Music Theory Spectrum 47, no. 1 (2025): 1–90. |
Public-Facing Scholarship Award |
| Bandy, Dorian Komanoff. Mozart the performer: Variations on the showman’s art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Bhogal, Gurminder Kaur. Sikh kirtan and its journeys: Instruments, theories, technologies. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Bourne, Janet. Who listens?: Experience, cognition, and musical meaning. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Burns, Chelsea. The exotic self: Mexican and Brazilian modernists abroad and at home. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Chattah, Juan. Film music: Cognition to interpretation. New York, NY: Routledge, 2024. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Cherin, Michael. Music’s making: The poetry of music, the music of poetry. State University of New York Press, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Drott, Eric. Streaming music, Streaming Capital. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Frymoyer, Johanna. Modernist movements: Listening for topics in Schoenberg and Stravinsky. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Hutchinson, Kyle. Processual tonality and the psychoacoustics of chromaticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
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 |
| Laws-Nicola, T.J. The sonic gaze: Hearing multimedia critically. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| McAdams, Stephen. Perception and cognition of music: The sorbonne lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Reece, Frederick. Forgery in musical composition: Aesthetics, history, and the canon. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Rings, Steven. What did you hear?: The music of Bob Dylan. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Rodgers, Stephen. The songs of Clara Schumann. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2023. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Rusch, René. Schubert's instrumental music and poetics of interpretation. Indiana University Press, 2023. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Schartmann, Andrew. Analyzing NES Music: Harmony, form, and the art of Technological Constraint. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
| Stover, Chris. Reimagining music theory: Contexts, communities, creativities. New York, NY: Routledge, 2025. |
Wallace Berry Award |
