AMS Newsletter--February 2010 - American Musicological Society

AMS Awards and Prizes
Awards, Honors, Prizes
The Otto Kinkeldey Award for a book of exceptional
merit by a scholar beyond the early
stages of her or his career was presented to
Michael Long (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
for Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in
Musical Media (California).
The Lewis Lockwood Award for a book of exceptional
merit by a scholar in the early stages
of her or his career was presented to Vanessa
Agnew (University of Michigan) for Enlightenment
Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other
Worlds (Oxford).
The H. Colin Slim Award for an article of
exceptional merit by a scholar beyond the
early stages of her or his career was presented
to Rose Rosengard Subotnik (Brown University)
for “Shoddy Equipment for Living?
Deconstructing the Tin Pan Alley Song,” in
Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor of Susan
McClary (Ashgate).
The Alfred Einstein Award for an article of
exceptional merit by a scholar in the early
stages of her or his career was given to David
Trippett (Cambridge University) for “Après
une lecture de Liszt: Virtuosity and Werktreue
in the ‘Dante’ Sonata,” 19th-Century Music.
The Claude V. Palisca Award for an outstanding
edition or translation was given to Margaret
Bent (University of Oxford) for Bologna
Q15: The Making and Remaking of a Musical
Manuscript (LIM Editrice).
The Ruth A. Solie Award for a collection of
essays of exceptional merit was presented to
Tom Beghin (McGill University) and Sander
M. Goldberg (University of California, Los
Angeles) for Haydn and the Performance of
Rhetoric (Chicago).
Michael Long
Kinkeldey Award winner
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Vanessa Agnew
Lockwood Award winner
The Robert M. Stevenson Award for outstanding
scholarship in Iberian music, including
music created or descended from musical
cultures of Spain, Portugal, and all Latin
American areas, was presented to Lorenzo
Candelaria (University of Texas, Austin) for
The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design
in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo
(Boydell & Brewer / Rochester).
The Music in American Culture Award for
a book of exceptional merit that both illuminates
some important aspect of the music of
Margaret Bent
Palisca Award winner
George Lewis
Music in American Culture Award winner
the United States and places that music in a
rich cultural context was presented to George
E. Lewis (Columbia University) for A Power
Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American
Experimental Music (Chicago).
The Noah Greenberg Award for outstanding
contributions to historical performing practices
was presented to Liber: Ensemble for
Early Music for a commercial recording of
previously unrecorded works of the Trecento
repertoire based on texts by identifiable poets.
The Paul A. Pisk Prize for an outstanding
paper presented by a graduate student at the
Annual Meeting was awarded to Rebekah
Ahrendt (University of California, Berkeley)
for “‘Allons en paix, rebatir nos maisons’: Staging
the Réfugié Experience.”
The inaugural Jan LaRue Travel Grant was
awarded to Sarah Williams (University of
South Carolina) to conduct research in London
on “Representations of Early Modern
Lorenzo Candelaria
Stevenson Award winner
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