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Western Music alumni receive Society for Music Theory Publication Awards
via Don Wright Faculty of Music
At the recent Society for Music Theory conference, publication awards were given to three Western Music alumni: Lori Burns received an Outstanding Publication Award for her article “Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal: The Case of Tatiana Shmayluk (Jinjer)”; Nancy Murphy, an Emerging Scholar (Book) Award for her book Times a-Changin’: Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter Music; and Kyle Hutchinson, an Emerging Scholar (Article) Award for “Chromatically Altered Diminished-Seventh Chords: Reframing Function through Dissonance Resolution in Late Nineteenth-Century Tonality”.
In addition, Western-based scholars contributed chapters to two volumes that won the Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award: current postdoctoral associate Kristin Franseen to Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory (edited by Gavin S.K. Lee), and associate professor Jonathan De Souza to Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theatre (edited by Michael Buchler and Gregory Decker).
Congratulations to all!