Jane A. Bernstein Prize for Exceptional Musicological Research

With the support of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass Amherst, this Prize is awarded to the best undergraduate or graduate research project on a musicological topic concerning pre-modern musical traditions (i.e., any music, musician, or musical tradition before about 1800) or their receptions up to the present day. The research project must have originated from either courses taught by, or theses advised by, a member of the music history area of the Department of Music & Dance in the current or prior two semesters.

Jane A. Bernstein is Austin Fletcher Professor of Music Emerita at Tufts University. She earned a M.M. Music History (1968) at UMass Amherst before pursuing her PhD from UC Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former President and now Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society. Jane’s important scholarship on Renaissance music has been recognized by the American Musicological Society with its highest honor the Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book Music Printing in Renaissance Venice: The Scotto Press (1539-1572) (1998), while her edited volume Women’s Voices across Musical Worlds (2003) was named a finalist for the Pauline Alderman Award. Her latest book Printing Music in Renaissance Rome appeared from Oxford University Press in 2023. Jane has also been a resident scholar of the Kinney Center at UMass.