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Notes 59.1 (2002) 38-44



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The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 2000. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music was presented to Robert Shay and Robert Thompson for Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). The MLA Publications Awards Committee noted, "Shay and Thompson's painstaking analysis of the Purcell manuscripts stands as a model of musicological and bibliographical research. Using all the techniques at the disposal of the modern bibliographer . . . the authors have added immeasurably to our understanding of the manuscripts and to the chronology of Purcell's works." [For a review of this book, see Notes 58, no. 1 (September 2001): 63-64 —Ed.] The Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature was given to A. Ralph Papakhian for his article "Cataloging," in Music Librarianship at the Turn of the Century (Notes 56, no. 3 [March 2000]: 581-90). The awards committee observed, ". . . Papakhian elegantly outlines the major developments in music cataloging and projects how further advancement in this realm may evolve in the near future. Citing the 'application of computer and networking technologies and the corresponding organizational efforts to promote cooperative cataloging' as the predominant influence on this discipline's recent growth, he traces events that have transpired in music cataloging history particularly during the past three decades. The clear and detailed overview that Papakhian provides for the description and organization of the world of musical objects informs the novice as well as the seasoned practitioner." The third publication award, the Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review published in Notes, was given to Richard Kramer for his review of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Skizzen (Neue Ausgabe sämtliche Werke, Ser. X: Supplement; Werkgruppe 30, Bd. 3) and Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in E-flat Major, K. 370b + K. 371: A Facsimile Reconstruction of the Autograph Sources (Notes 57, no. 1 [September 2000]: 188-93). The committee noted, "Richard Kramer's review-essay of two recent Mozart editions . . . reveals the author's own intimate acquaintance with Mozart's music and sources as well as his deep and thorough knowledge of Mozart scholarship. In his review Kramer discusses the place of the sketches in music history and what they tell us about Mozart as a teacher and composer. He raises issues of [End Page 38] the 'sketch' vs. the 'work'. . . . Kramer's essay stands as an exemplar of the type of thoughtful, well-informed review for which Notes has long been known."

Other MLA Awards. The Walter Gerboth Award was presented to John F. Anderies (Music Librarian, Haverford College) for his project "Tri-College Digital Music Initiative: Developing a Core Integrated Collection." The committee summarized the overall goal of this project: "to bring together music information objects in a digital library environment, so that music faculty and students of three small colleges of the Tri-Co consortium (Haverford, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr Colleges) would have access to a core digital music repertoire both on site and remotely." A core music collection will be identified for digitization and out-of-box digital reserve software will be evaluated in order to digitize the content of various music formats and connect them digitially. The project is unique in that it is geared toward small academic libraries. Anderies holds an M.L.S. from Indiana University, an M.A. in music from Case Western Reserve University, and has completed Ph.D. coursework in musicology at Indiana University. The Walter Gerboth Award is offered to members of the association who are in the first five years of their professional library careers, to assist research-in-progress in music or music librarianship.

This year there were two recipients of the Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music. In his research on "The New York School in Performance—The Need for Further Instructions," Clemens Gresser will study works of the New York School composers (Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff) written...

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