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2026 Deane L. Root Student Paper Award Winner: Davis Badaszewski

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On June 13, 2026

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The Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society is pleased to announce that the 2026 Deane L. Root Student Paper Award for the best graduate student paper goes to Davis Badaszewski for his paper “This is the Record of John by Orlando Gibbons: A Guide to Performance and Registration Practices.”

Davis Badaszewski serves as the Organist & Choirmaster at St. James Episcopal Church in Painesville, OH, where he is the curator of their tonally unaltered 1926 E. M. Skinner pipe organ, Op. 608. He is an active scholar and performer of organ and sacred music from Great Britain and the United States, with a particular emphasis on the music of the Anglican Communion. Davis has presented papers at regional conferences of the American Musicological Society and is scheduled to be a featured presenter at the 2026 biennial conference of the North American British Music Studies Association. His doctoral thesis, “The Practical Organist: An Analysis of Harold Friedell’s Compositions for Solo Organ,” advised by Dr. Jack Hughes, places Friedell’s works within the greater context of twentieth-century Anglo-American organ literature by examining his tonal language, structure, form, and use of the instrument. As part of this project, Davis performed and recorded Friedell’s complete works for organ over two recitals, both of which are available on YouTube.

Davis recently graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), studying with Professor Todd Wilson. At CIM, he was the Organ Department Teaching Assistant as well as the recipient of the Institute’s 2024 Heinrich Scholarship and 2026 Henry Fusner Prize in organ. Davis’ past degrees include a Master of Music in Organ Performance, also from CIM, a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance from Mercer University, and a Certificate in Injury Preventive Keyboard Technique from Salem College. At Mercer, he received the award for General Excellence in Music. Beyond his academic accolades, he is a member of The Diapason’s 20 Under 30, Class of 2025, and was the recipient of the 2026 Deane L. Root Student Paper Award from the Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society. Davis has also studied organ with Dr. Jack Mitchener, Dr. John Cummins, and Mr. William K. Trafka, as well as choral conducting with Dr. William Weinert.

Davis is a member of several professional societies and organizations. These include the American Musicological Society, the Association of Anglican Musicians, the Organ Historical Society, the Society of King Charles the Martyr, the Charles Villiers Stanford Society, and the Herbert Howells Society. He has also served in several leadership positions in the American Guild of Organists and is the current Dean of the Northeast Ohio Chapter.

Student Travel Fund Application Form

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On January 14, 2025

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Please complete this form to apply for student travel funds for AMS Allegheny meetings: AMS Allegheny: Student Travel Fund Application

Spring 2025 Call for Papers

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On January 2, 2025

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The Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society will hold its spring meeting on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at West Virginia University. The program committee invites proposals for individual papers, lecture-recitals, seminar panels, or other presentation formats on any subject of musicological interest. Following the conference, participants will have the opportunity to attend a concert featuring the Grammy-nominated vocal ensemble VOCES8 at 7:30pm at the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre.

Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words along with the proposed title and presentation format to graffp -at- denison.edu by Saturday, February 1st.

We encourage proposal submissions for a number of scholarly presentation formats. In accordance with AMS policies, please follow these guidelines:

1.     Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion.

2.     “Lightning” sessions consist of individual 8-10 minute talks with additional discussion or media. Entire session will fill a one-hour slot.

3.     Video presentation abstracts should include information on the goals and format of the presentation. Additional guidelines will be distributed with acceptance.

4.     Seminar panels will distribute written papers ahead of the conference and include extended discussion of the topic. See AMS Seminar FAQ for additional information on proposing a topic and why to choose this format: https://www.amsmusicology.org/page/MinneapolisSeminarFAQ

5.     Additional formats (workshops, roundtables, lecture-recitals) should fill an hour and 20-minute slot. Please identify session format, musicological significance, and participant roles in the abstract.

*Students are also eligible for the annual Deane L. Root Student Paper Award, sponsored by the Center for American Music in the University of Pittsburgh Library System. The Award consists of a $250 monetary prize and will be named at the end of the conference. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for this prize in the body of your email. The Chapter also offers limited support for travel and lodging to student presenters. Details can be found on the AMS Allegheny website.

All submissions will be evaluated by a blind peer-review process, and those from a committee member’s immediate colleagues or students will not be forwarded by the chair to that member.

AMS Allegheny is pleased to offer student presenters monetary reimbursement for travel and lodging of up to $150 per applicant. Support will be determined by the details you provide in this form and the number of applicants in a given year. Students from the host university or host city are ineligible to apply. Student presenters are expected to attend the entire meeting to receive travel reimbursement. All awardees must send copies of their receipts to the Chapter treasurer within one week following the meeting.

Spring 2023 Call for Papers

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On January 26, 2023

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Allegheny Chapter

of the

American Musicological Society

Spring 2023 Meeting

Saturday, March 25th  

University of Pittsburgh, Hillman Library, Room 340

The Spring 2023 Meeting of the Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, March 25, 2023 on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh; there will be a virtual attendance and presentation option. This event will be held in conjunction with the American Musicological Society’s Many Musics of America Series.

In a tribute to Pittsburgh’s rich gospel-music history, the American Musicological Society, in partnership with the AMS Allegheny Chapter and University of Pittsburgh Library System’s Center for American Music will present a public concert exploring the music of composer, arranger, and publisher Charles Henry Pace. With his wife Frankie, Charles ran one of the nation’s earliest and most successful independent black music publishing businesses out of Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood from the mid-1930s to the 1960s. Charles’s music was distributed and performed across the nation and became an important force in Frankie’s community organizing and activism, yet much of it has been inaccessible to performers for decades, surviving only on the printing plates and negative photographs that Charles used to publish his music. The Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh Library System is where the Pace archive is housed.

In conjunction with the concert, on the same day the University of Pittsburgh Library System will host the AMS Allegheny Chapter’s spring meeting, with a keynote lecture featuring Mark Burford. Mark Burford is R.P. Wollenberg Professor of Music at Reed College. His research and teaching focuses on late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Austro-German concert music and twentieth-century popular music in the United States, with particular focus on African American music after World War II. His scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Musicology, 19th-Century Music, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Current Musicology, Musical Quarterly, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and other edited collections. His article “Sam Cooke as Pop Album Artist—A Reinvention in Three Songs” received the Society for American Music’s 2012 Irving Lowens Award for the outstanding article on American music. His book Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (Oxford, 2019) received multiple prizes, including the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society for the outstanding book in musicology by a senior scholar. He is the editor of The Mahalia Jackson Reader (2020), an anthology of writings on Jackson for Oxford’s Readers on American Musicians series.

Presenters are invited to submit a proposal for individual papers, video presentations lecture-recitals, seminar panels, or other presentation formats on any subject of musicological interest. While this is an open call for papers, we are especially interested in submissions related to gospel music.

An abstract of max. 350 words for all proposal types, along with the proposed title and the presenter’s preferred mode of presentation (in-person or virtual) should be submitted by Saturday, February 25th.  Please identify proposal type in submission.

We encourage proposal submissions for a number of scholarly presentation formats. In accordance with AMS policies, please follow these guidelines:

  1. Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion.
  2. “Lightning” sessions consist of individual 8-10 minute talks with additional discussion or media. Entire session will fill a one-hour slot.
  3. Video presentation abstracts should include information on the goals and format of the presentation. Additional guidelines will be distributed with acceptance.
  4. Seminar panels will distribute written papers ahead of the conference and include extended discussion of the topic. See AMS Seminar FAQ for additional information on proposing a topic and why to choose this format: https://www.amsmusicology.org/page/MinneapolisSeminarFAQ
  5. Additional formats (virtual workshops, roundtables, lecture-recitals) should fill an hour and 20-minute slot. Please identify session format, viability for virtual presentation/participation, musicological significance, and participant roles in the abstract.

Please submit abstracts for both individual proposals and alternative sessions to: jennifer.walker2@mail.wvu.edu

All submissions will be evaluated by a blind peer-review process, and those from a committee member’s immediate colleagues or students will not be forwarded by the chair to that member.

Jennifer Walker

Program Committee Chair

Assistant Professor of Musicology

West Virginia University

jennifer.walker2@mail.wvu.edu

Fall 2022 AMS Allegheny CFP

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On August 23, 2022

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Allegheny Chapter

of the

American Musicological Society

Fall 2022 Meeting

Saturday, October 15th  

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

The Spring 2022 Meeting of the Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Presenters are invited to submit a proposal for individual papers, video presentations lecture-recitals, seminar panels, or other presentation formats on any subject of musicological interest.

An abstract of max. 350 words for all proposal types, along with the proposed title should be submitted by Thursday, September 15th.  Please identify proposal type in submission.

We encourage proposal submissions for a number of scholarly presentation formats. In accordance with AMS policies, please follow these guidelines:

  1. Individual papers should be no longer than 20 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion.
  2. “Lightning” sessions consist of individual 8-10 minute talks with additional discussion or media. Entire session will fill a one-hour slot.
  3. Video presentation abstracts should include information on the goals and format of the presentation. Additional guidelines will be distributed with acceptance.
  4. Seminar panels will distribute written papers ahead of the conference and include extended discussion of the topic. See AMS Seminar FAQ for additional information on proposing a topic and why to choose this format: https://www.amsmusicology.org/page/MinneapolisSeminarFAQ
  5. Additional formats (virtual workshops, roundtables, lecture-recitals) should fill an hour and 20-minute slot. Please identify session format, viability for virtual presentation/participation, musicological significance, and participant roles in the abstract.

Please submit abstracts for both individual proposals and alternative sessions to: jennifer.walker2@mail.wvu.edu

All submissions will be evaluated by a blind peer-review process, and those from a committee member’s immediate colleagues or students will not be forwarded by the chair to that member.

Jennifer Walker

Program Committee Chair

Assistant Professor of Musicology

West Virginia University

jennifer.walker2@mail.wvu.edu

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