Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award
MTSNYS both supports and encourages pre-professionals in their pursuit of a career in music theory with an Emerging Scholar Award for the best student paper at the annual meeting. The award, which was renamed the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award in 2004, carries a cash prize and promise of publication in Theory and Practice. Both the oral and written version of the paper are taken into consideration, and any student who has not yet received a doctoral degree at the time of the meeting is eligible. The winners have been:
Past Winners
2023
Stephen Spencer, “Visualizing the Relative Brightness of Concurrent Textural Layers in Ruth Crawford’s Music for Small Orchestra (1926)”
2022
Issa Aji, “The Making of Tarab: Emotion as Temporal Disruption in Umm Kulthūm’s ‘Alf Leila wa Leila’”
2021
Anna Yu Wang, “Perceiving banyan: Temporal Syntax Unbeholden to Periodicity”
2020
Kyle Hutchinson, “From A Certain Point of View: Learning to Hear Consonance as Dissonance in Late Nineteenth-Century Tonality”
2019
Michèle Duguay, “A Model for Measuring Physical Balance in Contemporary Piano Works”
Ben Baker, “A Cyclic Approach to harmony in Robert Glasper’s Music”
2018
Thomas Jul Kirkegaard-Larsen, “Transformational Attitudes in Scandinavian Function Theories”
2017
Derek Remeš, “J.S. Bach’s Chorales: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century German Figured-Bass Pedagogy in Light of a New Source”
2016
Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, “Interactions Between Topics and Schemata: The Case of the Sacred Romanesca”
2015
Joan Huguet, “Reconsidering Interruption in Rondo Forms”
2014
Zachary Bernstein, “The Problem of Completion in Milton Babbitt’s Music and Thought”
2013
Sarah Marlowe, “On the Subject of Tonal Answers: A Closer Look at William Renwick’s Paradigms”
2012
Rodney Garrison, “Unraveling Heinrich Schenker’s Ideas of Musical ‘Unfolding’”
2011
Drew F. Nobile, “Form and Voice Leading in Early Beatles Songs”
2010
Jason Hooper, “Heinrich Schenker’s early Theory of Form, 1895–1914”
2009
Christopher Segall, “K-Nets, Inversion, and Gravitational Balance” Noam Sivan – Honorable Mention: “Teaching Improvisation: The Creative Application of Theory in Performance”
2008
Katharine Soper, “Making Many From Few: Orchestration in the Chamber Works of Ruth Crawford Seeger”
2007
J. Daniel Jenkins, “Schoenberg’s Concept of ruhende Bewegung”
2006
Vasili Byros, “‘Tonal oder Atonal?’: Interval Cycles, Whole-Tone Tonality, and the Dialectics of Musical Process in Berg’s Piano Sonata, op. 1”
2005
Sam Ng, “The Hemiolic Cycle and Metric Dissonance in Brahms’s Cello Sonata in F, op. 99”
2004
José António Martins, “Stravinsky’s Harmonic Practice and the Guidonian Space”
2003
Jeannie Guerrero, “Multidiminsional Counterpoint and Social Subversion in Luigi Nono’s Choral Music”
2002
Adam Ricci, “A Classification Scheme for Harmonic Sequence”
2001
Don Traut, “Displacement and its Role in Schenkerian Theory”
2000
Stephen Slottow, “Fifths and Semitones: A Ruggles Compositional Model and its Unfoldings”
1999
Daphne Leong, “Metric Conflict in the First Movement of Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion”
1998
Matthew Santa, “Chordal Tone Centers in Stravinsky’s Neoclassical Music”
1995
Wayne Alpern, “Aggregates, Assassination, and an ‘Act of God’: The Impact of the Murder of Archduke Ferdinand Upon Webern’s Op. 7 No. 3”
1994
Wayne Petty, “Cyclic Integration in Haydn’s E-flat Piano Sonata Hob. XVI:38”
1993
Jennifer Shaw, “Rethinking Schoenberg’s Composition of Die Jacobsleiter”