2020
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Mark Burford
Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN 9780190634902)
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2019
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Laurie Stras
Women and Music in 16th Century Ferrara (Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 9781316650455)
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| 2018 |
Karol Berger
Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche (University of California Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0520292758) |
| 2017 |
Roger Moseley
Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (University of California Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0520291249) |
| 2016 |
Martha Feldman
The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (University of California Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0520279490) |
| 2015 |
Elisabeth Le Guin
The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain (University of California Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0520276307) |
| 2014 |
Scott Burnham
Mozart’s Grace (Princeton University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0691009100) |
| 2013 |
Tamara Levitz
Modernist Mysteries: Persephone (Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0199730162) |
| 2012 |
Ruth HaCohen
The Music Libel Against the Jews (Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0300167784) |
| 2011 |
Katherine Bergeron
Voice Lessons: French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque (Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0195337051) |
| 2010 |
Charles M. Atkinson
The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-195148-886) |
| 2009 |
Michael Long
Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media (University of California Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-520-22897-9) |
| 2008 |
Ellen Rosand
Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy (University of California Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0520249349) |
| 2007 |
Philip Gossett
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0226304825) |
| 2006 |
Richard Taruskin
The Oxford History of Western Music (Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0195169794) |
| 2005 |
Susan McClary
Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal (University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0520234936) |
| 2005 |
Finalist: Ruth A. Solie
Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations (University of California Press, 2004, ISBN 0520238451) |
| 2005 |
Finalist: Elijah Wald
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Amistad Press, 2004, ISBN 0060524235) |
| 2004 |
Daniel Heartz
Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780 (W. W. Norton & Co., 2003) |
| 2004 |
Finalist: Wendy Heller
Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice (University of California Press, 2003) |
| 2004 |
Finalist: Christopher Reynolds
Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music (Harvard University Press, 2003) |
| 2003 |
Anne Walters Robertson
Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works (Cambridge University Press, 2002) |
| 2003 |
Finalist: Richard Leppert
Essays on music (Theodor W. Adorno): Selected, with Introduction, Commentary, and Notes (University of California Press, 2002) |
| 2002 |
Ellen T. Harris
Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas (Harvard University Press, 2001) |
| 2001 |
Laurel E. Fay
Shostakovich: a Life (Oxford University Press, 2000) |
| 2001 |
Christoph Wolff
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (W. W. Norton & Co., 2000) |
| 2000 |
Mary Hunter
The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment (Princeton University Press, 1999) |
| 2000 |
Thomas J. Mathiesen
Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) |
| 1999 |
Jane A. Bernstein
Music Printing in Renaissance Venice: the Scotto Press (1539-1572) (Oxford University Press, 1998) |
| 1999 |
John A. Rice
Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera (University of Chicago Press, 1998) |
| 1998 |
Scott DeVeaux
The Birth of Bebop: a Social and Musical History (University of California Press, 1997) |
| 1997 |
Richard Taruskin
Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (University of California Press, 1996) |
| 1997 |
Laurence Dreyfus
Bach and the Patterns of Invention (Harvard University Press, 1996) |
| 1996 |
Charles Rosen
The Romantic Generation (Harvard University Press, 1995) |
| 1995 |
Richard Kramer
Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song (University of Chicago Press, 1994) |
| 1994 |
Margot Fassler
Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris (Cambridge University Press, 1993) |
| 1993 |
Eric Chafe
Monteverdi’s Tonal Language (Schirmer, 1992) |
| 1993 |
Lewis Rowell
Music and Musical Thought in Early India (University of Chicago Press, 1992) |
| 1992 |
James Webster
Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style (Cambridge University Press, 1991) |
| 1991 |
No Award |
| 1990 |
Thomas Forrest Kelly
The Beneventan Chant (Cambridge University Press, 1989) |
| 1990 |
Craig Wright
Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500–1550 (Cambridge University Press, 1989) |
| 1989 |
Maynard Solomon
Beethoven Essays (Harvard University Press, 1988) |
| 1988 |
Karol Berger
Musica Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflection in Vocal Polyphony from Marchetto da Padua to Gioseffo Zarlino (Cambridge University Press, 1987) |
| 1988 |
Anthony Seeger
Why Suya Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People (Cambridge University Press, 1987) |
| 1987 |
Frederick Neuman
Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart (Princeton University Press, 1986) |
| 1986 |
Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson, and Robert Winter
The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory (University of California Press, 1985) |
| 1985 |
Lewis Lockwood
Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400–1505: The creation of a musical center in the fifteenth century (Harvard University Press, 1984) |
| 1984 |
Howard Mayer Brown
A Florentine Chansonnier from the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent (University of Chicago Press, 1983) |
| 1983 |
Edwin M. Good
Giraffes, Black Dragons, and other Pianos: A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand (Stanford University Press, 1982) |
| 1982 |
Joseph Kerman
The Masses and Motets of William Byrd (University of California Press, 1981) |
| 1981 |
George Perle
The Operas of Alban Berg: Volume I, Wozzeck (University of California Press, 1980) |
| 1980 |
Leeman L. Perkins & Howard Garey
The Mellon Chansonnier (Yale University Press, 1979) |
| 1980 |
Nicholas Temperley
The Music of the English Parish Church (Cambridge University Press, 1979) |
| 1979 |
No Award |
| 1978 |
Richard L. Crocker
The Early Medieval Sequence (University of California Press, 1977) |
| 1977 |
H.C. Robbins Landon
Haydn: Chronicle and Works, Vol. III: Haydn in London 1791–1795 (Indiana University Press, 1976) |
| 1976 |
David P. McKay and Richard Crawford
William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth-Century Composer (Princeton University Press, 1975) |
| 1975 |
Vivian Perlis
Charles Ives Remembered: an Oral History (Yale University Press, 1974) |
| 1974 |
Robert L. Marshall
The Compositional Process of J.S. Bach (Princeton University Press, 1972) |
| 1973 |
H. Colin Slim
A Gift of Madrigals and Motets (University of Chicago Press, 1972) |
| 1972 |
Albert Seay
Jacobus Arcadelt, Opera Omnia, vol. II (American Institute of Musicology, 1971) |
| 1971 |
Daniel Heartz
Pierre d’Attaingnant, Royal Printer of Music (University of California Press, 1970) |
| 1971 |
Joseph Kerman
Ludwig van Beethoven, Autograph Miscellany from ca. 1786 to 1799. British Museum add. ms. 19801 (The ‘Kafka Sketchbook’) (Oxford University Press, 1970) |
| 1970 |
Nino Pirrotta
Li Due Orfei, da Poliziano a Monteverdi (RAI, 1969) |
| 1969 |
Edward Lowinsky
The Medici Codex of 1518 (University of Chicago Press, 1968) |
| 1968 |
Rulan Chao Pian
Sonq Dynasty Musical Sources and their Interpretation (Harvard University Press, 1967) |
| 1967 |
William W. Austin
Music in the Twentieth Century, from Debussy Through Stravinsky (W. W. Norton, 1966) |
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