Awards and Prizes
This is a list of awards, prizes and small funds that may be of interest to musicologists. Please add in entries, to help populate and advertise the awards. Expired entries for one-off awards can be deleted.
| Name of Award | Purpose/Remit | Eligibility | Deadline | Recurring | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music & Letters Awards | General - small grants to support musical research | Individuals or groups | November and May | Recurring | Link |
| RMA Small Research Grants | Up to £400 for research | Students or those without institutional support | November and May | Recurring | Link |
| Barry and Claire Brook Award | Outstanding work in global history of music | Any country or language | Fall | Recurring | Link |
| Dent Medal | Awarded to recipients selected for their outstanding contribution to musicology. | All members of the RMA and IMS are invited to submit nominations. | Annually | Recurring | Link |
| Philip Brett Award | Outstanding work in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual studies | Any country or language | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| AMS Early Music Award | Single-author work of scholarship on music before 1550 | AMS member, or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Paul A. Pisk Prize | For a scholarly paper presented at AMS Annual Meeting | Graduate student | Autumn | Recurring | Link |
| Noah Greenberg Award | Grant for cooperation between scholars and performers concerning historical performing practices | Open | August 15 | Recurring | Link |
| Claude V. Palisca Award | Prize for scholarly edition or translation | AMS member, or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | January | Recurring | Link |
| AMS Teaching Award | Exceptional pedagogical resource for musicology | AMS member, or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Robert M. Stevenson Award | Outstanding scholarship in Iberian and Latin American music | AMS Member | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Ruth A. Solie Award | Collection of musicological essays | At least one editor AMS member, or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| H. Colin Slim Award | Musicological article by early career scholar | Early career AMS member or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Music in American Culture Award | Book that both illuminates some important aspect of the music of the United States and places that music in a rich cultural context | Citizen or permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Lewis Lockwood Award | Musicological book by early career scholar | Early career AMS member or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Otto Kinkeldey Award | Musicological book by scholar past early career | Early career AMS member or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award (IMSODA) | Scholars who have completed their doctoral dissertation in the field of music in the last two years are eligible to apply. | IMS member | Winter/Spring | Recurring | Link |
| IMS Guido Adler Prize (IMS GAP) | The prize honors distinguished scholars who have made an outstanding contribution to musicology. | The IMS Directorium will make nominations to a smaller IMS GAP committee. Recipients need not be IMS members. | Annual/biennial | Recurring | Link |
| Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award | Musicological work in the field of critical race and/or critical ethnic studies | AMS member or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Roland Jackson Award | Article in music analysis | AMS member or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Alfred Einstein Award | Early career musicological article | Early career AMS member or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| H. Robert Cohen Award | Publication related to the goals of RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals) | AMS member or citizen/permanent resident of Canada/USA | Spring | Recurring | [1] |
| Bruno Nettl Prize | Publication contributing to or dealing with the history of the field of ethnomusicology | Open | Spring | Recurring | Link |
| Derek Allen Prize (British Academy) | Outstanding work by a scholar in musicology, numismatics, and Celtic studies, awarded in rotation | Open | TBC | Recurring in rotation | Link |
| RMA/Cambridge University Press Monograph Prize | Musicological monograph study focused on any under-represented cultural groups | Open | April | Recurring | Link |
| RMA/Cambridge University Press Outstanding Edited Collection Book Prize | Musicological edited collection | Open | April | Recurring | Link |
| Musicologica Austriaca: Best Paper Award 2022 | Best article on the broad topic of music and musical culture in or from Austria | Open | June 30, 2022 | Recurring | Link |
| SMA Pascall Medal | Scholar making a highly signification contribution to music analysis | Any scholar, any country | August | Recurring | Link |
| SMA Undergraduate Award | Outstanding contribution produced by an undergraduate | UK undergraduates | September | Recurring | Link |
| Society for Music Theory Publication Awards | Publications making significant contributions to music theory, analysis, or history of theory | Open | TBC | Recurring | Link |
| C.B. Oldman Award | Outstanding work of music bibliography, music reference or music librarianship by an author resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland | Open | TBC | Recurring | Link |
| E.T. Bryant Memorial Prize | Significant contribution to the literature of music information fields | Open | March | Recurring | Link |
| Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize | Essay of 3,000 to 4,000 words, on any aspect of popular music from any disciplinary perspective | Postgraduate students who are currently registered at universities and colleges in the U.K. and Ireland and who are members of IASPM | January | Recurring | Link |