Professional Opportunities and News

1. Digital Humanities Summer Institute

~ Would you like to harness your computer to conduct corpus-wide musical analyses?

~ Are you interested in digital music editing and publishing?

Full-tuition awards available!

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is celebrating its 20th year and is offering a course entitled “Music Encoding Fundamentals and their Applications” in June 2020. This exciting course offers an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic musical scores, analyzing those scores, and aligning them with other media such as audio and video. It is designed for students, early career researchers and senior academics who are interested in a music-encoding project, or for those who would like to better understand the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding notated music. Moreover, it will consider ways of incorporating sound and text files with encoded music notation. Participants should have a basic knowledge of how to read music, but no prior experience with coding is assumed.

The course will run on June 8-12, 2020, on the beautiful campus of the University of Victoria.

More information on the full-tuition awards is available at: https://dhsi.org/scholarships/.

For more information on this course, see Course 28: https://dhsi.org/course-offerings/.

More information on DHSI can be found at: https://dhsi.org/

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2. AMS Professional Development Travel Grants

The AMS offers Professional Development Travel Grants to AMS members who have little or no financial support for travel to participate in the Annual Meeting of the Society. The purpose of this grant is to aid non-affiliated scholars and those with institutional appointments but little or no financial support for conference travel.

Grants of up to $500 (overseas applicants) and $350 (U.S./Canada applicants) (subject to funding availability) are available to those who are presenting papers or performances, chairing sessions, or serving on an AMS Committee. Graduate students presenting papers at the Annual Meeting of the Society are also eligible for Professional Development Travel Grants, if the home institution is unable to provide sufficient support.

The AMS Board of Directors has made additional Professional Travel Grants available, funded through the the Keitel/Palisca Endowment.

These are intended to assist AMS members to attend the Annual Meeting. This initiative is open to all Student and Low Income members of the AMS.

As a general rule, scholars will not be funded two years in a row.

The 2019 application deadline was 1 July 2019. Award notifications will be made in about one month.

3. AMS Awards 2019

[N.B. See website for 2020 deadlines]

Upcoming deadlines for AMS Awards: see website [https://www.amsmusicology.org/page/awards] for details

Kinkeldey Award (best book by scholar beyond early stages):

Lockwood Award (best book by scholar in early stages):

Slim Award (best article by scholar beyond early stages)

Einstein Award (best article by scholar in early stages):

Palisca Award (best edition or translation):

Solie Award (outstanding collection of essays):

Stevenson Award (outstanding scholarship in Iberian music):

Music in American Culture Award (outstanding scholarship in music of the United States):

RIPM/Cohen Award (outstanding scholarship related to periodical publications)

Roland Jackson Award (music analysis):

Greenberg Award (outstanding performance projects):

Thomas Hampson Award (classic song)

Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award

Paul A. Pisk Prize (outstanding paper at annual meeting by graduate student):

AMS Teaching Award

Administered by the LGBTQ Study Group:

Philip Brett Award (outstanding work in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender/transsexual studies):