Winners of the 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 paper delivered by a graduate student 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. The winners have been:

Year	Scholar	Paper
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	"Choral 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