'Music & Letters' Awards
- Authors of Articles in this Issue
The Music & Letters Trust makes awards twice a year, in January and July, in order to support musical research. Over the last five years sums awarded have ranged from £50 to £1500, with most falling between £250 and £750. Projects supported have included research materials (such as photographs and microfilms), editorial costs (e.g. translations, reproduction rights), expenses for research trips (travel, accommodation), and conference attendance, and subsidies. Funds are not available to support research undertaken in order to gain a degree, nor to offset the costs of commercial publication. Applications from students, however, are welcomed for such purposes as conference attendance, research tangential to a degree, or research expenses falling within the categories listed above but unconnected with a thesis.
Awards are made on the basis of academic excellence and financial need. Many projects are jointly funded by the Music & Letters Trust and other grant-giving bodies. Applicants are encouraged to investigate all likely sources of funding. Successful applicants are asked to report on the use made of the Award and to acknowledge the Trust in publicity and publications.
Deadlines for applications are 15 May and 15 November in any year. Applications should be made to Ms Julia Kellerman, Secretary to the Music & Letters Trust, 87 Hampstead Way, London NW11 7LG. Detailed and fully costed proposals are required, including information about any other funding received or applied for, and candidates should ask one or two referees to write directly, in confidence, on their behalf.
Donald Burrows is Professor of Music at the Open University, a Vice-President of the Händelgesellschaft, and Chairman of the Handel Institute. His publications in 2005 include Handel and the English Chapel Royal (Oxford University Press) and Samson for the Novello Handel Edition. In February he conducted a concert of Handel’s Chapel Royal music in New Mexico, as part of the American Handel Festival.
François de Médicis is Associate Professor of Music at the Université de Montréal. His writings and lectures encompass a wide range of interets, including operatic duets in Mozart, thematic structures in Brahms’s instrumental music, diatonic or MI chromatic space in the music of Debussy, polytonality in the work of Milhaud, and the epistemology of music theory. He has presented papers at major conferences such as the Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis (2005), the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society (2003), the International Musicological Society (2002), and the Congrès Européen d’analyse musicale (2001). He has published articles in Acta musicologica, the Canadian University Music Review, and Einaudi’s Enciclopedia della musica, as well as collections of essays published by l’Harmattan and the Sorbonne.
Shersten Johnson is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She recently completed her doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation examines dramatic issues of writer’s block in Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice.
Sarah Stoycos received her Ph.D. in musicology in 2001 from Washington University and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. She has presented her research at conferences on the international, national, and regional levels, and has written several reviews for Notes. In addition to pursuing her interests in music of the sixteenth century, she also studies the interaction of music and politics in the twentieth century. She is currently researching the issues surrounding music in the Japanese American internment camps during the Second World War.
