Rebecca Moranis was awarded the 2025 Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award by the Music Theory Society of New York State (MTSNYS) for her paper “An Analysis of Joni Mitchell’s Vocal Evolution.” Rebecca presented this paper this past Spring at both the MTSNYS conference and at the Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song (TOPS) conference, and she […]
Congratulations to Prof. Kofi Agawu, who was awarded a 2024 Wallace Berry Award of the Society for Music Theory for his book, On African Music (Oxford University Press, 2023)! See link below for more details on Prof. Agawu’s book, “On African Music”: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/on-african-music-9780197664063?cc=us&lang=en&
Congratulations to Prof. Joseph Straus, who was awarded a 2024 Pedagogy of Music Theory Award for his book, The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-three Graphic Analyses (Oxford University Press, 2022)! See the following link for more details on Prof. Straus’ book, “The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-three Graphic Analyses”: https://academic.oup.com/book/41565
Prof. Kofi Agawu was honored with the 2023 the Guido Adler Prize by the International Musicological Society. Congratulations to Professor Agawu! https://www.musicology.org/awards-and-programs/ims-gap/95-awards-programs/309-ims-gap2023
Prof. William Rothstein was honored with the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Special Recognition Award for his book, The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859, published by Oxford University Press. Congratulations to Professor Rothstein! https://www.ascap.com/press/2023/10/10-31-taylor-thomson-awards
Prof. Joseph Straus has just released the podcast, Twenty Stravinsky Analyses! https://open.spotify.com/show/0kLhnp4GA2qJ5YX9lgMYcL Each episode digs deeply into a short passage from a Stravinsky work, from Petrushka to Requiem Canticles. The first episode is also available at SMT-Pod https://smt-pod.org/.
Three members of the Graduate Center Music Department community—Poundie Burstein (faculty), Quynh Nguyen (alumna), and Jennifer Roderer (DMA student)—jointly authored the video-article “The Best Laid Plans . . . and Others: An 18th-Century Compositional Outline,” SMT-V 10.1, available at https://www.smt-v.org. This 10-minute video-article examines issues surrounding the use of models in music analysis, using an analysis from the […]
On March 23–24 2023, Visiting Scholar Researcher Liza Sirenko (Ukraine) co-organized “Fresh Science,” 17th International Youth Scientific and Practical Online Conference. The conference featured a number of scholars from around the world, including a number of DMA and PhD students from the Graduate Center CUNY. One of keynote talks was given by Prof. Joseph Straus. […]
Prof. Joseph Straus’s produced a series of 18 analytical videos about the Rite of Spring (roughly twelve hours of video), which are now available through the website http://riteofspringproject.org . The analyses are presented in a way that might be of interest to people who are not professionals, as well as by music professionals. Prof. Straus […]
Prof. William Rothstein’s long-awaited book, The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813–1859, has been published by Oxford University Press. Taking an eclectic analytical approach in examining works by Rossini, Bellini, Mercadante, Donizetti, and Verdi and, Meyerbeer, Rothstein uses ideas originating in several centuries, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first, to argue that operatic music can […]
Philip Stoecker (CUNY 2003) received the Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award for co-editing (with Edward Venn) the book Adès Studies (Cambridge: CUP, 2021). Among other essays, this book features the article “Sonic Allegory in Adès’s The Exterminating Angel” by CUNY professor Yayoi Uno Everett.
Noriko Manabe (CUNY 2009) received the SMT 2022 Outstanding Publication Award for her article “We gon’ be alright? The ambiguities of Kendrick Lamar’s protest anthem,” Music Theory Online, 25(1).
