Please note: the award nomination process for book/article awards has been updated for 2021. To nominate a work for more than one award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

If the stated deadline day is a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday, the deadline will be the following business day.

Click on the award titles for detailed guidelines and nomination form.

• Early Music Award
  for outstanding work on music before 1550
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners   Current Nominees  


• H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award
  for outstanding work based on the musical press
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners   Current Nominees  


• Alfred Einstein Award
  for outstanding article in musicology (early stages)
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners   Current Nominees  


• Roland Jackson Award
  for outstanding work in music analysis
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award
  for outstanding work in critical race/ethnic studies
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners   Current Nominees  


• Otto Kinkeldey Award
  for outstanding work of musicological scholarship (beyond early stages)
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• Lewis Lockwood Award
  for outstanding work of musicological scholarship (early stages)
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• Music in American Culture Award
  for outstanding scholarship in music of the United States
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• H. Colin Slim Award
  for outstanding article in musicology (beyond early stages)
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• Ruth A. Solie Award
  for outstanding collection of essays
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• Robert M. Stevenson Award
  for outstanding scholarship in Iberian and Latin American music
  (deadline: 3 May )
  Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• AMS Teaching Award
  for an exceptional pedagogical resource
(deadline: 3 May )
Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• Claude V. Palisca Award
  for outstanding Edition or Translation
  (deadline: 31 January )
  Previous Winners Current Nominees  


• Noah Greenberg Award
  for outstanding performance projects
  (deadline: 16 August )
  Previous Winners


• Thomas Hampson Award
  for research and publication in Classic Song
  (deadline: 16 August )
  Previous Winners
  


• Paul Pisk Prize
  for outstanding paper at annual meeting by graduate student
  (deadline: 1 October )
  Previous Winners




Administered by the LGBTQ Study Group of the AMS.

• Philip Brett Award
  for outstanding work in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual studies
  (deadline: 1 May )
  Previous Winners