Congratulations are extended to those members of the Music Department community who recently received special honors for their achievements in Fall 2003:

• Professor Elaine Sisman was elected President of the American Musicological Society. Read more [1]

• At the 2003 National Conference for the Society of Music Theory in November, Professor Fred Lerdahl was awarded the Wallace Berry Award for his book, Tonal Pitch Space (Oxford, 2001); Associate Professor David E. Cohen was awarded the Outstanding Publication Award for his article, "The Imperfect Seeks its Perfection: Harmonic Progression, Directed Motion, and Aristotelian Physics," Music Theory Spectrum 23.2 (2001); and alumnus David Temperley (PhD '96) was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award for his book, The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures (M.I.T., 2001).