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Pauline Alderman Award Recipients

2007

  1. Susan Rutherford for The Prima Donna and Opera, 18-15-1930 (Cambridge, 2006) in the category of Books
  2. Elizabeth Leach for The Little Pipe Sings Sweetly as the Fowler Deceives the Bird: Sirens in the Middle Ages, Music and Letters 87 (2): 187-211 in the category of Articles.
  3. Marion Gerards and Freia Hoffmann for Musik-Frauen-Gender: Bucherverzeichnis 1780-2004 (Oldenberg: BIS-Verlag, 2006) in the category of Reference Work.
  4. Honorable Mention: Claire Fontijn for Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo (Oxford, 2006 - Book; Elizabeth Leach for Gendering the Semitone, Sexing the Leading Tone: Fourteenth-Century Music Theory and the Directed Progression, Music Theory Spectrum 28 (1): 1-21 - Article; Kristina Guiguet for Mrs. Widder's Soiree Musicale, Toronto 1844 (Ottawa: Melotrope Limited, 2006) - Sound Recording.

2005

  1. Lori Burns and Melisse Lafrance for Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity, and Popular Music (Routledge, 2002) in the category of outstanding book-length monograph about women in music.
  2. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner for "Women and Music Technology: Pioneers, Precedents and Issues in the United States" in Organized Sound: An International Journal of Music Technology (2003) in the category of outstanding journal article treating an aspect of women in music.
  3. Honorable Mention: Jane Bernstein, ed., for Women's Voices Across Musical Worlds (Northeastern UP, 2002) in the category of book-length study of women in music.

2004

  1. The winner in the category of most important book-length monographic study about women in music: Judith Tick. Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  2. The winner in the category of most important journal article or essay: Suzanne G. Cusick. "Gender, Musicology, and Feminism." In Rethinking Music, edited by Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  3. Certificates of Honorable Mention for the following contributions to the scholarship on women in music:

    Juanita Karpf. "'As With Words of Fire': Art Music and Nineteenth-Century African-American Feminist Discourse." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 24, no. 3 (Spring 1999).
    Elizabeth Jane Kertesz. "Issues in the Critical Reception of Ethel Smyth's Mass and First Four Operas in England and Germany." Ph.D. dissertation, May 2000, University of Melbourne, Australia.
    Lisa A. Urkevich. "Anne Boleyn, A Music Book, and the Northern Renaissance Courts: Music Manuscript 1070 of the Royal College of Music, London." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland at College Park, 1997.

1997

  1. First Prize: The book by Marcia Citron, Gender and the Musical Canon (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
  2. Second Prize: The article by Bonnie Jo Dopp, "Numerology and Cryptography in the Music of Lili Boulanger: The Hidden Program in Clairières dans le ciel," The Musical Quarterly, v. 78, no. 3 (Fall, 1994), 557-583.
  3. Third Prize: The reference book by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel, The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, 1st American ed. (New York & London: W.W. Norton, 1995).

1993

  1. First Prize: Judith Lang Zaimont, Editor-in-Chief, and Jane Gottlieb, Joanne Polk, and Michael J. Rogan, Associate Editors. The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, Volume III: 1986-1990. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991).
  2. Second Prize: Susan McClary. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991).
  3. Third Prize: Karin Pendle. Women and Music: A History. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).

1989

  1. First Prize: Diane Jezic. Women Composers: The Lost Tradition Found. (New York: Feminist Press of the City University of New York, 1988).
  2. Second Prize: Judith Vander. Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988).

1988

  1. First Prize: Virginia Bortin. Elinor Remick Warren: Her Life and Her Music. (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987).
  2. Second Prize: Edith Borroff, "The Apprentice System and the Music of Women." (Typescript, 1987. Unpublished paper given at the Fourth International Congress on Women in Music, Atlanta GA, 1986).
  3. Third Prize: Susan Finger. The Los Angeles Heritage: Four Women Composers, 1918-1939. (Typescript, 1987. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986)

1987

  1. First Prize (only prize awarded): Jane Bower, and Judith Tick. Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987)

1986

  1. First Prize: Catherine Parsons Smith, and Cynthia S. Richardson. An American Woman: The Life and Music of Mary Carr Moore. (Typescript, 1985. Subsequently published by the University of Michigan Press, 1987). Second Prize: Nancy B. Reich. Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985).
  2. Third Prize (shared): Judith Rosen. Grazyna Bacewicz: Her Life and Works. (Los Angeles: Friends of Polish Music, 1985).
  3. Joanne Riley. "Tarquinia Molza (1547-1617): A Case Study of Women, Music, and Society in the Renaissance." (Typescript, 1985. Subsequently published by Greenwood Press in The Musical Woman II, 1987).