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The C. B. Oldman Prize is made annually by the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (United Kingdom) for an outstanding work of music bibliography, music reference, or music librarianship by one or more authors resident in the United Kingdom. This year the prize was awarded jointly to two outstanding works. The winners are David Fallows for A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 1415-1480 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) and Arthur Searle for The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999). [For reviews of these books, see Notes 58 (2001): forthcoming and Notes 57 (2000): 370-71.--Ed.]

IAML (UK) and The Music Libraries Trust are pleased to announce that the E. T. Bryant Memorial Prize for 2000 has been awarded to Malgorzata Czepiel for "The Retrieval of Music Materials from Electronic Catalogues: A Case Study" which was submitted for her master's degree in Information Services Management at the University of North London, August 2000. This prize is awarded annually by IAML (UK) and The Music Libraries Trust for a significant contribution to the literature of music librarianship by one or more authors resident in the United Kingdom. It was established in recognition of the enormous contribution Eric ("Bill") Bryant made to the field of music librarianship.

Three purchases made in the spring of 2001 have added two treatises and a liturgical book to the Brandeis University Libraries' Walter F. and Alice Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints, 1501-1650, housed in the library's Department of Special Collections (full descriptions of the holdings are at www.library.brandeis.edu/SpecialCollections/Collections/gorham.html):

Zacconi, Lodovico. Practica di musica seconda parte. Divisa, e distinta in quattro libri, . . . . In Venetia: appresso Alessandro Vincenti, 1622. RISM B/VI: 904. Copies of the second part of Zacconi's comprehensive treatise on singing, musical composition, and counterpoint (with an abundance of musical examples) are rare, and the only other recorded copy in North America is held by Rutgers University.

Zarlino, Gioseffo. Le istitutioni harmoniche . . . , nelle quali, oltra le materie appartenenti alla musica, si trovano dichiarati molti luoghi di poeti, d'historici, et di filosofi. . . . In Venetia: appresso Francesco Senese, 1562 (reissue of the 1561 edition). RISM B/VI: 908. While copies of the second printing of Zarlino's fundamental treatise on music theory and the practice of musical composition are widely held by North American and European libraries, the copy obtained by Brandeis University is made unique and particularly intriguing by the ninety-six (out of 347) pages that bear marginal annotations in at least two hands from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries (some struck out in the same brown ink)--thus recording nearly contemporaneous responses to Zarlino's observations. The Brandeis copy comes from the library of the Italian composer Gualfardo Bercanovich (1840-1908), a well-known theoretician and singing teacher who had all of his books identically bound--which, in the case of the Zarlino volume, cut away the last letters of the marginalia during the trimming. The skilled eyes and imagination of a musicologist well versed in reading late-sixteenth-century Italian handwriting will be needed to complete the words and to decipher the annotations.

Rituale Romanum Pauli · V. · Pont. · Max. · iussu editum. Editio novissima. Lutetiæ Parisiorum: apud Societatem Typographicam Librorum Officii Ecclesiast[ici] ex Decreto Concil[ii] Tridentini, 1623. Published in Paris, this new edition of the Roman Ritual, as revised by the order of Pope Paul V and the Council of Trent and first published in 1614, was intended for use by priests with official pastoral responsibilities. It contains, with the accompanying chants notated on red staves, the services for baptism, confession, marriage, visitation of the sick, burial of the dead, communion outside of Mass, and blessings and processions for various occasions. Bound at the end of the Ritual is a twenty-seven-page set of religious instructions and devotions in the vernacular (the prone), Instructions des curez et vicaires pour faire le prosne (France, ca. 1630-60), to be read before the sermon...