The two winners of the 2023 Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group Publication Award are Landon Morrison’s “Encoding Post-Spectral Sound: Kaija Saariaho’s Early Electronic Music at IRCAM, 1982–87” and Mariusz Kozak’s “Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Violin Phase and the Experience of Time, or Why Does Process Music Work?”, both published in Music Theory Online in 2021.
Congratulations to Landon and Mariusz, and many thanks to our Publication Award Committee: Benjamin Levy (chair), Jocelyn Ho (2022 award winner), and Abigail Shupe.
Past Awards
2022: Jocelyn Ho, “Corporeal Musical Structure: A Gestural-Kinesthetic Approach to Tōru Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch II”. Music Theory Online 27, no. 4 (2021).
2021: Drake Andersen, “(Per)forming Open Form: A Case Study with Earle Brown’s Novara.” Music Theory Online 26, no. 3 (2020), and Sumanth Gopinath, “Departing to Other Spheres’: Psychedelic Science Fiction, Perspectival Embodiment, and the Hermeneutics of Steve Reich’s Four Organs.” In Rethinking Reich (Oxford University Press, 2019).
2020: Philip Rupprecht, “Rhythmic Dignity: Motive, Signal, and Flux in the Music of James Dillon.” Musiktheorie, 34, no. 4 (2019), pp. 347–76.