Departmental
Student Awards
Prizes are awarded each Spring to the writers of an
outstanding dissertation chapter, a seminar paper, and research proposal.
In addition, the department awards a prize for an outstanding undergraduate
student paper on post-World War I avant-garde music.
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.
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 1995 |
Steven
Baur |
Ravel's
“Russian” Period: Octatonicism in his Early Works |
| 1994 |
Christina
Magaldi
|
|
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 Research Fellowship
The
Ciro Zoppo Research Fellowship, generously funded by Ms. Rosemary
Zoppo, encourages the study and performance of the works of lesser-known
composers with a $3,000 prize. (Guidelines)
| 2007 |
Sara Gross |
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 |
|
| 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)
| 2007 |
Philip Gentry |
| 2006 |
Marcie Ray |
| 2005 |
Stephan Pennington |
| 2004 |
Olivia Mather |
| 2003 |
Gordon Haramaki |
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
|
| 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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