In the spirit of the upcoming Oscars and my upcoming exam, here are my nominations for some awards from the history of music theory:
Best name: Rocco Rodio (or, if you restrict it to major theorists, Guido d'Arezzo)
Most famous based on a relative: Vincenzo Galilei
Best footnote: the footnote to Rameau's (inaccurate) claim that he is the first to recognize chordal inversion ("On this point, see all other treatises on music")
...more to come (maybe?)...
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