Award News - Sweet Anticipation wins Berry Award

The Society for Music Theory has recently honored David Huron with the 2007 Wallace Berry Award.  Huron received this prestigious award for his book, Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. The book explores the psychological theory of expectation proposed by Huron, which grew out of his experimental efforts to understand how music evokes emotions. The Wallace Berry Award is one of three awards presented by the Society for Music Theory for outstanding books or articles in English that constitute significant contributions to the field of music theory.