Senior Scholarship, Keble College Oxford. October 1981
Senior Germaine Scholarship, Brasenose College Oxford. October 1982 (declined)
Fulford Research Fellowship, St Anne’s College Oxford. October 1982 (proxime accessit)
Westrup Prize, for the best article published in Music and Letters 1988). March 1989
American Musicological Society, Ruth A. Solie Award for the best collection of essays on a musicological topic in 2009 (joint award with Annegret Fauser, UNC Chapel Hill), November 2010
American Musicological Society, H. Colin Slim award for the best article in musicology (beyond early stages) in 2010, November 2011
Academia Europaea, Fellow, September 2012-
American Musicological Society, Corresponding Member, November 2014-
Association of American Publishers, Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence [PROSE Award], nomination for Humanities Reference, January 2019 (joint nomination with Thomas F. Kelly, Harvard University