The Royal Musical Association

The Dent Medal, in memory of Edward J. Dent, is awarded by the Royal Musical Association annually to recipients selected for their outstanding contribution to musicology, from a list of candidates drawn up by the Council of the Association and the Directorium of the International Musicological Society.

For 2009, the Dent Medal is awarded to W. DEAN SUTCLIFFE, who is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Auckland.

Sutcliffe has produced a remarkably impressive body of published work, including monographs, critical editions, edited volumes, and journal articles, distinguished by an acute analytical insight and elegance of expression that are models of their kind. He has prompted new interest in ideas of dialogue in eighteenth-century instrumental music and his work on texture in Haydn's Piano Trios has prompted a critical re-evaluation of this neglected corpus. He has shed new light on works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven with which we thought we were familiar. His monograph on Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas (2004) is a major musicological achievement. He has moreover made a leading contribution to the development of eighteenth-century studies as founding editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music

On 27 November 2010, the Association will hold a study day in honour of Dean Sutcliffe. The day will feature papers on topics inspired by Dean's work, and will incorporate the RMA AGM and Dent Medal Lecture. More information.

More on the Dent medal, including previous recipients.

A full citation will appear in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association.

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