Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship Recipients
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1986-1990
| 2011 | Andrea Bohlman, Harvard University “Music and Activism in Poland, 1978-1990” |
| 2011 | Sean Curran, University of California at Berkeley “Vernacular Piety, Polytextual Polyphony, and the Motets of the ‘La Clayette’ Manuscript” |
| 2011 | Chantal Frankenbach, University of California at Davis “Disdain for Dance, Disdain for France: Choreophobia in Musical Modernism” |
| 2011 | Jessica Schwartz, New York University “Resonances of the Atomic Age: Hearing the Nuclear Legacy in the United States and the Marshall Islands, 1945 – 2010” |
| 2011 | Beverly Wilcox, University of California at Davis “The Music Libraries of the Concert Spirituel: Canons, Repertoires, and Bricolage in Eighteenth-Century Paris” |
| 2011 | Emily Zazulia, University of Pennsylvania “Verbal Canons and Notational Complexity in Fifteenth-Century Music” |
| 2010 | Alison Altstatt, University of Oregon “The Music and Liturgy of Kloster Preetz: Ritual Practice in a North German Benedictine Women’s Community, 1350-1550” |
| 2010 | Ryan Bañagale, Harvard University “Rhapsodies in Blue: Alternative Interpretations of an Iconic American ‘Composition’” |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Mellon, University of Pennsylvania “Inscribing Sound: Medieval Remakings of Boethius’s De institutione musica” |
| 2010 | Tes Slominski, New York University “Music, Gender, and the Public Sphere in 20th-Century Ireland” |
| 2009 | Corbett Bazler, Columbia University
“The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel’s Post-Academy Operas, 1738–1744” |
| 2009 | Martin Nedbal, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
“Morals across the Footlights: German Opera, National Identity, and the Aesthetics of Morality, 1770–1820” |
| 2009 | Andrew Oster, Princeton University “Radio, Rubble, and Reconstruction: The Genre of Funkoper in Postwar West Germany” |
| 2009 | Anna Zayaruznaya, Harvard University
“Form and Idea in the Fourteenth Century Motet” |
| 2008 | Esther Criscuola de Laix, University of California at Berkeley
"Cultures of Music Print in Hamburg, ca. 1550-1630" |
| 2008 | Karen Hiles, Columbia University
"Haydn's Heroic Decades: Music, Politics, and War, 1795-1809" |
| 2008 | Arman Schwartz, University of California at Berkeley
"Modernity Sings: Rethinking Realism in Italian Opera" |
| 2008 | Daniil Zavlunov, Princeton University
"M. I. Glinka's A Life for the Tsar (1836): An Historical and Analytic-Theoretical Study" |
| 2007 | Michael Alan Anderson, University of Chicago
"Symbolizing the Saints: Theology, Ritual, and Kinship in Music for John the Baptist and St. Anne (1175-1520)" |
| 2007 | Brigid Cohen, Harvard University
"Migrant Cosmopolitan Modern: Cultural Reconstruction in Stefan Wolpe's Musical Thought" |
| 2007 | Nikos Pappas, University of Kentucky
"Patterns in the Sacred Musical Culture of the American South and West (1760-1860)" |
| 2007 | Noel Verzosa, University of California at Berkeley "The Absolute Limits: Debussy, Satie, and the Culture of French Modernism, ca. 1860-1920" |
| 2006 | Todd R. Decker, University of Michigan
"Black/White Encounters on the American Musical Stage and Screen, 1924-2005" |
| 2006 | Margaret Martin, Stony Brook University
"Cultivating the Vernacular: Bang on a Can and the New American Avant-Garde" |
| 2006 | Lisa Musca, UCLA
"The Piano Fragment and the Decomposing of the Musical Subject from the Romantic to the Postmodern" |
| 2006 | Jesse Rodin, Harvard University
"Josquin and the Polyphonic Mass in the Sistine Chapel" |
| 2006 | Marisa Biaggi, Princeton University
"Ogni amante è guerrier: Monteverdi and the War of Love in Early Modern Italy" |
| 2005 | Emily Iuliano Dolan, Cornell University
"The Idea of Timbre in the Age of Haydn" |
| 2005 | David C. Paul, University of California at Berkeley
"Converging Paths to Canonicity: Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler, and American Culture" |
| 2005 | Benjamin Adam Steege, Harvard University
"Material Ears: Hermann von Helmholtz, Attention, and the Modernization of Aurality" |
| 2004 | S. Andrew Granade, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"'I Was a Bum Once Myself': The Dust Bowl and Harry Partch in the American Imagination" |
| 2004 | Yossi Maurey, University of Chicago
"Music and Ceremony in Saint-Martin of Tours, 1205-1500" |
| 2004 | Kiri Miller, Harvard University
"A Long Time Traveling: Song, Memory, and the Politics of Nostalgia in the Sacred Harp Diaspora" |
| 2004 | Heather Wiebe, University of California at Berkeley
"Rituals of a Lost Faith: Britten and the Culture of Postwar Reconstruction." |
| 2003 | Melina Esse, University of California at Berkeley
"Sospirare, Tremare, Piangere: Conventions of the Body in Italian Opera, 1810-60" |
| 2003 | Charles Hiroshi Garrett, University of California at Los Angeles
"Struggling to Define a Nation: Reconstructing American Music in the Twentieth Century" |
| 2003 | Roger Moseley, University of California at Berkeley
"Brahms's Shadows: History and the Disciplining of Musical Identity" |
| 2003 | Scott Paulin, Princeton University
"On the Chaplinesque in Music: Studies in the Musical Reception of Charlie Chaplin, 1915-55." |
| 2002 | Patrick Burke, University of Wisconsin
"Jazz and Race on Manhattan's 52nd Street, 1930-50" |
| 2002 | Julie McQuinn, Northwestern University
"Unofficial Discourses of Gender and Sexuality at the Opéra-Comique during the Belle Epoque" |
| 2002 | Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Cornell University
"Opera Buffa and the American Revolution (1768-88)" |
| 2002 | Holly Watkins, University of California at Berkeley
"The Concept of Depth in German Musical Thought, 1800-1950" |
| 2001 | Joanna Demers, Princeton University
"Sampling as Lineage in Hip-hop" |
| 2001 | Matthew Gelbart, University of California at Berkeley
"Scotland and the Emergence of 'Folk' Music and 'Art' Music in Europe, 1720-1850" |
| 2001 | Nalini Ghuman Gwynne, University of California at Berkeley
"India in the English Musical Imagination c. 1890-1940" |
| 2001 | Olga Haldey, Ohio State University
"Savva Mamontov and the Moscow Private Opera: from Realism to Modernism on the Russian Operatic Stage" |
| 2001 | Sherry D. Lee, University of British Columbia
"Opera, Narrative, and the Modernist Crisis of Historical Subjectivity" |
| 2001 | Stephanie Tcharos, Princeton University
"Music and Drama Beyond the Boundaries of Opera: Performance and Reception of the Roman Oratorio, Cantata, and Serenata, 1675-1710" |
| 2000 | Beth Levy, University of California at Berkeley
"American Music and the Mythology of the American West, 1895-1945" |
| 2000 | Susan Lewis, Princeton University
"Collecting Italia Abroad: Anthologies of Italian Madrigals in the Print World of Northern Europe" |
| 2000 | Rebecca Maloy, University of Cincinnati
"The Offertory Chant: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission" |
| 2000 | Ivan Raykoff, University of California at San Diego
"Mythologies of the 'Romantic' Pianist in 20th-Century Popular Culture" |
| 2000 | Elizabeth Wells, Eastman School of Music
"West Side Story(s): Perspectives on a Great American Musical" |
| 1999 | Lisa Barg, State University of New York, Stony Brook
"National Voices/Modernist Histories: Race, Performance, and Remembrance in American Music, 1927-1943" |
| 1999 | Elizabeth Bergman Crist, Yale University
"Aaron Copland's Third Symphony (1944-46): Composition, Context, and Consequence" |
| 1999 | Giuseppe Gerbino, Duke University
"Orpheus in Arcadia: The Creation of Pastoral Mode in the Sixteenth-Century Madrigal" |
| 1999 | Barbara Milewski, Princeton University
"The Mazurka and National Imaginings" |
| 1999 | Martin Scherzinger, Columbia University
"Musical Formalism as Radical Political Critique: From German Modernism to African Spirit Possession" |
| 1999 | Anya Suschitzsky, University of California at Berkeley
"The Nation on Stage: Wagner and French Opera at the End of the Nineteenth Century" |
| 1998 | Theo Cateforis, State University of New York, Stony Brook
"Exploding Genres: Stylistic Pluralism in New Wave Rock" |
| 1998 | Danielle Fosler-Lussier, University of California at Berkeley
"The Transition to Communism and the Legacy of Bela Bartok in Hungary, 1948-1955" |
| 1998 | Dana Gooley, Princeton University
"Liszt and his Audiences, 1820-1847: Virtuosity, Criticism and Society in the Virtuosenzeit" |
| 1998 | Beth Anne Lee-De Amici, University of Pennsylvania
"Ad Sustentacionem Fidei Christiani: Sacred Music and Ceremony in Medieval Oxford" |
| 1998 | Klara Moricz, University of California at Berkeley
"Jewish Nationalism in Art Music as Propagated by the Russian Jews and Practiced by Ernest Bloch and Arnold Schoenberg" |
| 1998 | Rebecca Wagner Oettinger, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Music as Popular Propaganda in the German Reformation" |
| 1998 | Emanuele Senici, Cornell University
"Alpine Virgins: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Opera Semiseria" |
| 1998 | Rose Theresa, University of Pennsylvania
"Spectacles of Enchantment: Experiencing Opera in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris" |
| 1997 | Maribeth Clark, University of Pennsylvania
"Understanding French Grand Opera through Dance" |
| 1997 | Bernardo Illari, University of Chicago
"Cathedral Music at Chuquisaca, Bolivia, 1700-1800" |
| 1997 | Gillian Rodger, University of Pittsburgh
"Male Impersonation on the American Variety and Vaudeville Stage, 1868-1930" |
| 1997 | Leslie Sprout, University of California at Berkeley
"New Music and State Support for the Arts in France, 1938-1945" |
| 1997 | Marica Tacconi, Yale University
"Liturgy and Chant at Santa Maria del Fiore, Cathedral of Florence: A Survey of the Pre-Tridentine Sources (11th-16th Centuries)" |
| 1996 | Todd Borgerding, University of Michigan
"The Motet and the Expression of Spanish Religiosity, 1500-1610" |
| 1996 | Mary Davis, Harvard University
"Esprits gaulois: Erik Satie's Sports et divertissements in Context" |
| 1996 | Susan Boynton, Brandeis University
"Glossed Hymns in Eleventh-Century Continental Hymnaries" |
| 1996 | Simon Morrison, Princeton University
"Russian Opera and Symbolist Poetics" |
| 1996 | David Schneider, University of California at Berkeley
"Expressions in the Time of Objectivity: Nationality and Modernity in Five Concertos by Béla Bartók" |
| 1996 | Albin Zak, City University of New York
"The Poetics of Rock Composition: Multitrack Recording as Compositional Practice" |
| 1995 | Gregory Barnett, Princeton University
"Defining a Musical Culture of the Late Seicento: The Bolognese Instrumental Repertoire" |
| 1995 | Geoffrey Burgess, Cornell University
"Ritual in the tragédie en musique from Lully's Cadmus et Hermione (1673) to Rameau's Zoroastre (1749)" |
| 1995 | Nancy Guy, University of Pittsburgh
"Peking Opera and Politics in Post-1949 Taiwan" |
| 1995 | Heather Hadlock, Princeton University
"Romantic Visions of Women and Music: From Hoffmann's Tales to Les contes d'Hoffmann" |
| 1995 | John Andrew Johnson, Harvard University
"Gershwin's 'American Folk opera': The Genesis, Style, and Reputation of Porgy and Bess (1935)" |
| 1995 | Stefano Mengozzi, University of Chicago
"Between Humanistic Ideals and Scientific Thought in Glarean's Dodecachordon |
| 1994 | Arved Ashby, Yale University
"The Development of Berg's Twelve-Tone Aesthetic as Seen in the Lyric Suite and Its Sources" |
| 1994 | Stefano Castelvecchi, University of Chicago
"On the 'Third Genre' in Italian Opera c. 1760-1810" |
| 1994 | John Clevenger, University of Rochester
"The Origins of Debussy's Style" |
| 1994 | Gayle Clark Kirkwood, University of Pittsburgh
"Johannes Ockeghem and Jean Charlier de Gerson: Music, Intellect and Devotion in Fifteenth-Century Tours" |
| 1994 | Benjamin Korstvedt, University of Pennsylvania "The First Edition of Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony: Authorship, Production, and Reception" |
| 1993 | Daniel Beller-McKenna, Harvard University "Brahms, the Bible and Post Romanticism: Cultural Issues in Johannes Brahms's Later Settings of Biblical Texts, 1877-1896" |
| 1993 | Wendy Heller, Brandeis University "Heroism and Allure: Women in the Opera of Seventeenth-Century Venice" |
| 1993 | Berthold Hoeckner, Cornell University "Music as a Metaphor for Metaphysics" |
| 1993 | Peter Hoyt, University of Pennsylvania "The 'False Recapitulation' and the Conventions of Sonata Form" |
| 1993 | Joseph Lubben, Brandeis University "Analytic Process in Schenker's Der Tonwille" |
| 1993 | Mary Ann Smart, Cornell University "Representations of Madness in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera" |
| 1992 | Dexter Edge, University of Southern California "The Concerto in Vienna 1740-1791: Aspects of Genre, Form, Performance and Repertoire" |
| 1992 | Edmund Goehring, Columbia University "The Comic Vision of Così fan tutte: Literary and Operatic Traditions" |
| 1992 | Anne MacNeil, University of Chicago "Music and the Life and Work of Isabella Andreini: Humanistic Attitutdes Toward Music, Literature and Theater in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries" |
| 1992 | Alison Terbell, Princeton University "Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele: Music, Poetry and Revisions" |
| 1992 | Richard Will, Cornell University "Programmatic and Titled Symphonies, 1750-1815: A Study of Musical Representation in the Classical Symphony" |
| 1991 | David Cannata, New York University "The Stylistic Origins of the Late Symphonic Music of Sergei Rachmaninoff" |
| 1991 | Robert Fink, University of California at Berkeley "Transformation of Musical Energy: Linear Structures and Musical Desire" |
| 1991 | Robert Grimes, University of Pittsburgh "How Shall We Sing in a Foreign Land? Music of Catholic Immigrants in the Ante-Bellum United States" |
| 1991 | Elizabeth Hudson, Cornell University "Musical Dramaturgy in Verdi: Narrative Texts vs. Dramatic Process" |
| 1991 | Kristin Knittel, Princeton University "From Chaos to History: The Reception of Beethoven's Late Quartets" |
| 1991 | Bruce Mcclung, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
"Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark" |
| 1990 | Susan Jackson, City University of New York
"Music Printing in 16th-Century Nuremberg: The Firm of Berg (Montanus) and Neuber" |
| 1990 | Ray Komow, Brandeis University
"The Genesis and Tone of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" |
| 1990 | Michael Schiano, Brandeis University
"Arnold Schoenberg's Grundgestalt and Its Influence" |
| 1990 | Amy Stillman, Harvard University
"Himene Tahiti: Ethnoscientific and Ethno-historical Perspectives on Protestant Hymnody and Choral Singing in the Society Islands, French Polynesia" |
| 1990 | Alicyn Warren, Princeton University
"Levels of Reality in Dramatic Music" |
| 1989 | Thomas Brothers, University of California at Berkeley "Selected Topics in French Music of the Fifteenth Century with Emphasis on Historical Antecedents and Issues of Musical Analysis" |
| 1989 | Bridget Conrad, City University of New York "Sacred Dimensions: Time and Space in Selected Works of André Jolivet and Olivier Messiaen" |
| 1989 | Steven Saunders, University of Pittsburgh "Sacred Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II: The Latin Vocal Works of Giovanni Priuli and Giovanni Valentini" |
| 1988 | Steven Krantz, University of Minnesota
"Rhetorical and Structural Functions of Mode in the Motets of Josquin des Prez" |
| 1988 | Thomas Sipe, University of Pennsylvania
"Interpreting Beethoven: History, Aesthetics, and the Critical Reception of the Eroica Symphony, the 'Appassionata' sonata, and the C-Major 'Razumovsky' Quartet" |
| 1987 | Donald McLean, University of Toronto "Alban Berg's Drei Orchesterstuecke, Op. 6" |
| 1987 | James Pritchett, New York University "The Development of Chance Technique in the Music of John Cage, 1950-1961" |
| 1986 | David Gramit, Duke University "The Intellectual and Aesthetic Tenets of Franz Schubert's Circle: Their Development and Their Influence on his Music" |
