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Prizes are awarded each Spring to the writers of an outstanding dissertation chapter, a seminar paper, and research proposal. In addition, the department awards two undergraduate prizes for best senior thesis and Civic Engagement.
The Herman and Celia Wise Fellowship
The Herman and Celia Wise Fellowship, generously funded by the Wises, encourages writing excellence within the department and awards the winner with a $1,200 prize.
| 2012 |
Alexandra Apolloni |
Wishin' and Hopin': Race, Self-Invention, and Dusty Springfield's Voice |
| 2011 |
Joanna Love-Tulloch |
When Soda Met Pop: Michael Jackson and Pepsi Make the Deal of Century |
| 2010 |
Kelsey Cowger |
On Art and Danger: 4 Fluxus Musics
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| 2009 |
Marcie Lynn Ray |
The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes at the Opera Comique |
| 2008 |
Kariann Goldschmitt
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Blame it on theBossa Nova: From Dance Fads to Easy Listening, 1959-1971 |
| 2007 |
Sara Gross |
François Couperin and the Idea of Caractére |
| 2006 |
Caroline O'Meara |
The Bush Tetras Make Manhattan: Noise on the Grid |
| 2005 |
Kate Bartel |
The Queen of Heaven and the Emperor's Celestial Choices: Issac's Virgo Prudentissima and Maximilian I |
| 2004 |
Cecilia Sun |
Minimalism's Myths of Origins: Terry Riley's In C |
| 2003 |
Charles Hiroshi Garrett |
Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America's Borders with Musical Orientation |
| 2002 |
Maria Cizmic |
Arvo Pärt: Transending the Icon |
| 2000 |
Steven Baur |
Music, Morals, and Social Management: Mendelssohn in Post-Civil War America |
| 1999 |
Nasser Al-Taee |
Janissary Music andthe Concept of the Other in Eighteenth-Century Viennese Instrumental Works |
| 1998 |
Steve Allen Gordon |
Mahler's Seventh Symphony, Modernism, and the Crisis of Austrian Liberalism |
Mary Bianco Fellowship
The Mary Bianco Fellowship, generously funded by Ms. Bianco, highlights and writing excellence within the department and awards the winner with a $1,200 prize.
| 2001 |
Jacqueline Warwick |
“He's Got the Power”: Production and Authorship in Girl Group Music |
The Charles and Carmela Speroni Fellowship
Each spring the department holds a competition among the graduate students and awards the Charles and Carmella Speroni Fellowship for an outstanding seminar paper. Funded generously by Ms. Speroni, the competition highlights and encourages writing excellence within the department and awards the winner with a $1,200 prize.
| 2006 |
Kelsey Cowger |
Decadent Wagnerians: Masochism, Cultism & Gulit in Wagnerian Aesthetics |
| 2005 |
Ljubica Ilic |
Between Myth and History: Ljubica Maric's Byzantine Concerto |
| 2004 |
Barbara Moronicini |
Messian - Out of Time |
| 2003 |
Griffin Woodworth |
Miscegenation and Mysogyny in Rap-Metal Music |
| 2002 |
Andrew Berish |
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| 2001 |
Charles Hiroshi Garrett |
Louis Armstrong and the Sound of Migration |
| 2000 |
Cecilia Sun |
“A Restrained Testament to his Spirit”?: Pure Form or Moral Content in Gavin Bryars' Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet(Abstract) |
| 1999 |
Dale Chapman |
Cool Containment: Jazz, Whiteness, and Culture Politics During the Early Cold War Period |
| 1998 |
Francesca Draughon |
“Truth and Poetry in Music”: Autobiography in the Funeral March of Mahler's First Symphony (Abstract) |
| 1997 |
Stuart De Ocampo |
Mediation and Modality: Subjunctive Discourse in the Motets of Alessandro Grandi |
| 1996 |
Kaspar Partovi |
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| 1995 |
Steven Baur |
Ravel's “Russian” Period: Octatonicism in his Early Works |
| 1994 |
Christina Magaldi |
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The Friends of Musicology Best Seminar Paper Award
Each spring the department holds a competition among the graduate students and gives one graduate student an award for the best seminar paper of that previous academic year.
2011
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Jillian Rogers
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Mourning at the Piano: Grief and French Pianism during World War I |
2010
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Zachary Wallmark |
Noise, Music, and Power in the Industrial City, 1890–1930 |
| 2010 |
Alexandra Roedder - Honorable Mention
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Hello, Wall•E!: Music as Signifier of the Human |
| 2009 |
Peter Lawson |
"A sad and sorrowful triumph of death": Responses to plague in Monteverdi's Selva. |
| 2008 |
Hyun Kyong Chang
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Deconstructing John Coltrane: Coltrane as an Authentic Jazz Man and Politics of Representation in 1960s |
| 2007 |
Marcie Ray
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Forsaking All "Other": Marriage, Birth and the Fate of Comedy in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platee |
Robert Stevenson Prize
(runner-up to the Speroni Award)
Walter Rubsamen Prize
(runner-up to the Speroni Award)
Norman Faye Graduate Student Fellowship for Best Graduate Student
Ciro Zoppo Graduate Student Award
The Ciro Zoppo Graduate Student Award, generously funded by Ms. Rosemary Zoppo, encourages the study and performance of the works of lesser-known composers with a $3,000 prize. (Guidelines)
| 2012 |
Mindy LaTour O’Brien |
Spiritual Song across the Confessional Divide: the music of Guillaume de Chastillon de La Tour |
| 2011 |
Lindsey Strand-Polyak |
Decadence, Meraviglia and Mazarin's Pleasure Excavating the Late Violin Sonatas of Marco Uccellini's Ozio Regio |
| 2010 |
Hyun Kyong Chang |
Forgotten and Banned in Cold War Koreas: Piano Works of Kim Soon Nam |
| 2009 |
Julius Reder Carlson |
Mendelssohn's "Jewish" legacy: The Synagogue oeuvre of Louis Lewandowski |
2008
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Marcie Lynn Ray
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In Search of Madame Favart's "Voice": A musical biography |
| 2007 |
Sara Gross
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The Accompanied Sonata and the Female Amateur in Eighteenth-Century France |
| 2006 |
Elizabeth Morgan |
Sounds of Persuasion: Music for the Pianoforte from Jane Austen's Notebooks |
| 2005 |
Stephan Pennington |
Friedrich Hollaender's Kabarettrevue |
| 2003 |
Louis Niebur |
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| 2002 |
Kate Bartel |
A Performance of Plenitude: Chiara Margarita Cozzolani's “O quam bonus es” |
| 2001 |
Gordon Haramaki |
Nicholas Lanier’s Body and King Charles’ Hand: “English” Recitative as Expressive Prosthesis |
Departmental Teaching Award
(also the department nominee for the Distinguished
Teaching Award given by the Academic Senate)
| 2012 |
Mindy LaTour O'Brien |
| 2011 |
Joanna Love-Tulloch |
| 2010 |
Sam Baltimore |
| 2009 |
Gray Raulerson |
| 2008 |
Eric Wang
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| 2007 |
Philip Gentry |
| 2006 |
Marcie Ray |
| 2005 |
Stephan Pennington |
| 2004 |
Olivia Mather |
| 2003 |
Gordon Haramaki |
The Friends of Musicology Best Senior Thesis Award in Music History
The department hasa competition among the undergraduates in conjunction with the senior thesis or capstone requirement . This award is given to the best senior thesis of the academic year.
| 2010 |
Alysse Padilla
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The Musicality of Mae West: A Study of Musical Principles in Speech and Voice
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| 2009 |
Mary Collins
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The Four Season: A Classical Hit
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| 2008 |
Blenda Im
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The Heart of Worship: "Simplexities" in Contemporary Christian Music |
| 2008 |
Jee Won Suh - Runner Up
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Never "Standing By": Sound Recordings as Dynamic Agents |
John Bragin Prize in Musicology
Awarded for the best undergraduate paper on Post-World War I avant-garde music, with particular encouragement to submissions that deal in whole or in part with the career of Pierre Boulez as critic, composer, and conductor. (Guidelines)
| 2007 |
Charles Stratford |
Integration to Disintegration: An Analysis of Boulez’s Le marteau sans maître |
| 2007 |
Sayo Yamagata |
“The hum of thoughts evaded in the mind”: Boulez’s Reconciliation with Music Language in Improvisation sur Mallarmé II
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| 2006 |
Timothy Kane |
Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra: A Pivotal Piece |
| 2005 |
Jonathan Piper |
“Listening to Difficulty” : The Developing of a Personal Listening Strategy Using Phenomenological Description Applied to Aïs by Iannis Xenakis |
| 2004 |
Steve Coy |
Schoenberg est vivant: The Motivations behind Boulez's Le Marteau Sans Maitre |
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