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The American Musicological Society is pleased to announce that the following publications have been awarded subventions as part of the spring 2026 award cycle. Thank you to the AMS members who support the publication subventions program and donate funds to help with expenses involved in the publication of works on music. Thank you to all the authors and publishers who applied to the program and congratulations to those awarded funding!

Operatic Mimesis: Performing Agency, Animacy, and Automation

Author: Sarah Collins
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: General Fund

 

Villancicos of the Maya Highlands: Seventeenth-Century Vernacular Sacred Music from the Huehuetenango Manuscript Collection

Authors: Paul G. Feller-Simmons and Kirstin Haag
Press: A-R Editions
Fund: Iberian & Latin American Music Fund

 

Luigi Rossi – Il palazzo incantato: Azione rappresentata in musica with Text by Giulio Rospigliosi

Editor: Roger Freitas
Press: A-R Editions
Fund: Margarita M. Hanson Fund and the General Fund

 

Zen and the Art of Software: John Cage and Lejaren A. Hiller Jr.’s HPSCHD (1967–1969)

Author: Tiffany Funk
Press: University of Illinois Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

 

Remix, Reuse, Recycle: Music, Media Technologies, and Remediating the Environment

Author: Kate Galloway
Press: Oxford University Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

 

More than Friends: Muslim-Jewish Intimacy in Algerian Music

Author: Jonathan Glasser
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: General Fund

 

Composing Modernism: Musical Formalism and the Experimental Turn in the Princeton School

Author: Scott Gleason
Press: University of California Press
Fund: Donna Cardamone Jackson Fund and the General Fund

 

Cavalry Trumpeters and Kettledrummers: The Birth of the Mounted Band

Author: Bruce P. Gleason
Press: Indiana University Press
Funds: Claire & Barry Brook Fund and the General Fund

 

Music and Sound in Transpacific East Asia: Transformations and Trajectories

Author: Hedy Law
Press: Palgrave Macmillan
Funds: Iberian & Latin American Music Fund and the General Fund

 

Medieval and Early Modern Soundscapes

Author: Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita
Press: Boydell and Brewer
Fund: Kenneth Levy Fund

 

Trauma, Sound, and Music in the Contemporary Horror Film

Authors: Laurie McManus
Press: Routledge, Ashgate Screen Music Series
Fund: General Fund

 

Musical Moments of Motherhood: Nigeria’s Igbo Women at Home and in the Diaspora

Author: Ruth Opara
Press: University of California Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

 

Music Metropolis Berlin

Author: Pamela Potter
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: John Daverio Fund and the General Fund

 

European Composers on the American Tour, 1900-1914: Richard Strauss, Saint-Saëns, Scriabin, and Coleridge-Taylor

Authors: Matthew Reese
Press: Eastman Studies in Music, University of Rochester Press (Boydell & Brewer)
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

 

Instruments of Music Theory

Author: Alexander Rehding
Press: The University of Chicago Press
Fund: Joseph Kerman Fund and the General Fund

 

Preprogrammed: How Electronic Presets Changed Music and Media

Author: Amy Skjerseth
Press: The University of California Press
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

 

Elfrida Andrée – Symphony No. 1 in C Major

Editor: Jonathan Spatola-Knoll
Press: A-R Editions
Fund: AMS 75 PAYS Fund

 

Clubwomen Activists and American Music

Author: Marian Wilson Kimber
Press: University of Illinois Press
Fund: Donna Cardamone Jackson Fund and the General Fund