The Noah Greenberg Award from the

American Musicological Society The American Musicological Society (AMS) is a musicological organization which researches, promotes and produces publications on music. Founded in 1934, the AMS was begun by leading American musicologists of the time, and was crucial in legitim ...

is granted annually to musical scholars and performers in order to build relationships between the two and to encourage efforts in historical performance. The award was established by the trustees of the

New York Pro Musica New York Pro Musica was a vocal and instrumental ensemble based in New York City, which specialized in Medieval and Renaissance early music, music. It was co-founded in 1952, under the name Pro Musica Antiqua, by Noah Greenberg, a choral director, ...

Antiqua in honor of their co-founder,

Noah Greenberg Noah Greenberg (April 9, 1919 – January 9, 1966) was an American choral conductor. Greenberg was born in the Bronx. In 1937, aged 18, he joined the Socialist Workers Party of Max Shachtman, and worked as a lathe operator and party activist. He ...

. The winner receives a monetary prize ($2,000) and a certificate which is given at the Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation of the Society by the chair of the committee. The first recipient was

Richard Taruskin Richard Filler Taruskin (April 2, 1945 – July 1, 2022) was an American musicologist and music critic who was among the leading and most prominent music historians of his generation. The breadth of his scrutiny into source material as well as ...

in 1978 for his recording of

Johannes Ockeghem Johannes Ockeghem ( – 6 February 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. Ockeghem was the most influential European composer in the period between Guillaume Du Fay and Josquin des Prez, and he was—with his ...

' Renaissance ''

Missa prolationum The ''Missa prolationum'' is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Johannes Ockeghem, dating from the second half of the 15th century. Based on freely written material probably composed by Ockeghem himself, and consisting entirely of ...

''. Past recipients include

Musicians of the Old Post Road Musicians of the Old Post Road (MOPR) is a chamber music ensemble based in the Boston area that specializes in period instrument performance. The ensemble often performs "rediscovered" works from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. The e ...

, a Boston-area early music ensemble, for their recording of ''Trios and Scottish Song Settings of J. N. Hummel'' in 1998, and Lori Kruckenberg, Michael Alan Anderson, and the Schola Antiqua of Chicago for ''Sounding the Neumatized Sequence'' in 2012.

References

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