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:
- 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
Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award
Call for Papers for 2008