H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Fund

The H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Fund for research based on the musical press is named after H. Robert Cohen, founder and director of Répertoire international de la presse musicale (RIPM). Grants are given annually to one or more members of the American Musicological Society (AMS). The fund supports research and travel related to the goals of RIPM, a long-standing publication internationally recognized as one of the primary tools in research in music and musicology. The fund specifically 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. The average award amount is typically between $500 and $1,500, with applicants permitted to request up to $5,000.