Editing Pulitzer Prize for Music (section)

===1980s===
Indented entries are finalists after each year's winner.
* 1980: [[David Del Tredici]], ''In Memory of a Summer Day''
** [[Morton Subotnick]], ''After the Butterfly''
** [[Lukas Foss]], ''Quintets for Orchestra'' 
* 1981: no prize awarded
* 1982: [[Roger Sessions]], ''[[Concerto for Orchestra (Sessions)|Concerto for Orchestra]]''
* 1983: [[Ellen Zwilich]], ''[[Three Movements for Orchestra]]'' (Symphony No. 1)
** [[Vivian Fine]], ''[[Drama for Orchestra]]''
* 1984: [[Bernard Rands]], ''[[Canti del Sole]]''
** [[Peter Lieberson]], ''[[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Lieberson)|Piano Concerto]]'',
* 1985: [[Stephen Albert]], [[Symphony No. 1 (Albert)|Symphony No. 1 ''RiverRun'']]
** [[William Bolcom]], ''[[Songs of Innocence and of Experience|Songs of Innocence and Experience]], a Musical Illumination of the Poems of William Blake''
* 1986: [[George Perle]], ''[[Wind Quintet No. 4 (Perle)|Wind Quintet No. 4]]'', for [[flute]], [[oboe]], [[clarinet]], [[French horn|horn]], and [[bassoon]]
**[[George Rochberg]], ''[[Symphony No. 5 (Rochberg)|Symphony No. 5]]''
* 1987: [[John Harbison]], ''[[The Flight into Egypt (Harbison)|The Flight into Egypt]]''
** [[Stephen Albert]], ''Flower of the Mountain''
* 1988: [[William Bolcom]], ''[[Twelve New Etudes for Piano|12 New Etudes for Piano]]''
** [[Gunther Schuller]], ''[[Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (Schuller)|Concerto For String Quartet and Orchestra]]''
* 1989: [[Roger Reynolds]], ''[[Whispers Out of Time]]''
** [[Steven Stucky]], ''[[Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 (Stucky)|Concerto for Orchestra]]''
** [[Bright Sheng]], ''H'un (Lacerations): In Memoriam 1966–1976''