H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Fund Grant

H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Musicological Society Inc
Last Updated: February 26, 2026

Summary

The H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Fund supports research and travel focused on the goals of the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM). Named after its founder, H. Robert Cohen, the fund emphasizes studies based on periodical literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Eligible applicants include all members of the American Musicological Society, promoting equitable access to resources in musicology and fostering significant contributions to the field.

Overview

About the AMS The American Musicological Society exists to expand understanding of music and sound through research, teaching, learning, and advocacy. To realize its mission, the Society fosters new work through a range of grants, fellowships, publication subventions, and awards; encourages exchange through publications, meetings, performances, lectures, and other public programs; and supports the professional lives of its members and constituents through workshops, mentoring, discussion forums, and other resources. As a guiding principle, the AMS promotes equity, access, and inclusion. H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Fund The H. Robert Cohen/RIPM fund for research based on the musical press is named for the founder and director of RIPM, H. Robert Cohen. He has overseen the publication of some three hundred volumes and the creation of several databases providing the full text of, and access to, hundreds of rare music periodicals. His many publications deal with music criticism, the musical press, musical iconography, and the staging of opera. H. Robert Cohen studied at New York University and taught at the Université de Paris VIII, Université Laval, the University of British Columbia, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Maryland, where he was named Professor Emeritus by his colleagues. For his contribution to French culture he was named Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. And, the title of Honorary Member was conferred on him by the International Musicological Society, as well as the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers. Topical Focus Grants from the fund will support research and travel related to the goals of RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals), a long-standing publication internationally recognized as one of the primary tools in research in music and musicology. The fund supports studies based in large part upon eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music, including those focusing on one or more journals, music critics and criticism, reception history and issues related to access and preservation.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. All members of the AMS are eligible to apply. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.