Anthony Pople Mid-Career Researcher Award

The Anthony Pople Mid-Career Researcher Award is named after the late musicologist Anthony Pople (1955-2003). In this context a Mid-Career Researcher, is defined as someone in permanent academic employment, holding a position of Senior Lecturer or above (or equivalent – Assistant Professor will be deemed equivalent to Senior Lecturer), with a body of music analysis work behind […]

Adele Katz Early Career Researcher Award

The Adele Katz Early Career Researcher Award is named after the late post-Schenkerian analyst Adele Katz (1887-1979). In this context an Early Career Researcher is defined as someone who has either completed their PhD in the last eight years or has been in permanent or temporary salaried employment as a musicologist for a period of not more […]

SMA PhD Thesis Award

The SMA PhD Thesis Prize is given for a doctoral thesis which has been completed with all corrections passed, and which features a major component of music analysis, and was finally completed during the 2022-23 academic year. Nominees must have studied as an undergraduate in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Nominations should be […]

SMA Undergraduate Award

The SMA Undergraduate Award is given annually for an outstanding piece of undergraduate work featuring musical analysis. The second is the SMA PhD Thesis Prize, about which details will come in a separate e-mail. For the Undergraduate Award, nominations are invited of the following type: a dissertation or extended essay (the major component of a […]

SMA Pascall Medal

The Pascall Medal is named after the late Robert Pascall (1944-2018), reflecting his inestimable work in the discipline of music analysis. This award is now entering its fourth year – previous winners have been James Hepokoski, Arnold Whittall and Janet Schmalfeldt. It will be awarded to any scholar from any country, and from any stage of their […]

Mentoring schemes for women

As part of the SMA’s continued commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we have two mentoring schemes aimed specifically at combating the continued under-representation of women in our discipline. The schemes were launched in 2020 and will be repeated regularly. Please look out for the launch of the next season soon. Queries about either scheme […]

Development Fund

Grants are made from the Music Analysis Development Fund according to the procedures set out below. 1. Grants to Individuals The Music Analysis Development Fund offers support for travel and subsistence to UK-based students and scholars working in the discipline of music analysis to attend conferences in the UK or abroad, to consult library and […]