The Music Theory Society of New York State is delighted to announce that Marc Hannaford and Catrina Kim received the 2023 Emerging Scholar Award (Article) for their essays in volume 46 (2021) of Theory and Practice.

Marc E. Hannaford, “Fugitive music theory and George Russell’s theory of tonal gravity,” Theory and Practice, 46 (2021): 47–82.
Access the article free here until 12/15/2023.

Catrina Kim, “Issues in teaching music theory ethically: Reframing university directives of antiracist and decolonized curricula,” Theory and Practice, 46 (2021): 23–45.
Access the article free here until 12/15/2023.
The volume was guest edited by Ellie M. Hisama and Rachel Lumsden. Congratulations Catrina and Marc!
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We are thrilled to announce that Stephen Spencer (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center) received the 2023 award for his paper, “Visualizing the Relative Brightness of Concurrent Textural Layers in Ruth Crawford’s Music for Small Orchestra (1926),” which will appear in a future issue of Theory and Practice. Congratulations, Stephen!
MTSNYS both supports and encourages pre-professionals in their pursuit of a career in music theory with the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award for the best student paper delivered at the Annual Meeting. The award carries a cash prize and promise of publication in the Society’s journal, Theory and Practice. Both the oral and written version of the paper are taken into consideration.