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An annual award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music, named in honor of Vincent H. Duckles in 1985.

2013 Call for Nominations

Recipients

2013

Jerry McBride, Douglas Moore: a Bio-Bibliography (Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions, 2011)

2012

Christophe Grabowski and John Rink, Annotated Catalogue of Chopin's First Editions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

2011

No award

2010

Laurie J. Sampsel, Music Research: A Handbook (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009)

2009

David Williams and C. Matthew Balensuela, Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2007)

2008

Diccionario de la Zarzuela: España e Hispanoamérica. under the direction of Emilio Casares Rodicio. 2nd edition in 2 volumes, (Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2006)

2007

Mary Lewis, Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538–1569 (New York: Garland Press, 2005)

2006

James R. Cowdery, Zdravko Blažekovic, Barry S. Brook, gen. eds., Speaking of Music: Music Conferences, 1835–1966 (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 2004) RILM Retrospective Series, No. 4.

2005

Joël-Marie Fauquet, Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle (Fayard, 2003)

2004

Sabina Teller Ratner, Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835–1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)

2003

Horst Leuchtmann and Bernhold Schmid, Orlando di Lasso: seine Werke in zeitgenössischen Drucken, 1555–1687. Orlando di Lasso: Sämtliche Werke: Supplement (Kassel; New York: Bärenreiter, 2001)

2002

Robert Shay and Robert Thompson, Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

2001

David Fallows, A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 1415–1480 (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999)

James B. Sinclair, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives (New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 1999)

2000

Glenda D. Goss, Jean Sibelius: A Guide to Research (New York, NY: Garland Publishomg, 1998)

1999

Paul Bryan, Johann Wanhal, Viennese Symphonist: His Life and His Musical Environment (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1997)

1998

Michael Twyman, Early Lithographed Music: A Study Based on the H. Baron Collection (London: Farrand Press, 1996)

1997

Lawrence Earp, Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995)

1996

Donald Burrows and Martha J. Ronish, A Catalogue of Handel's Musical Autographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)

1995

Helen Myers, ed., Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993)

1994

Mary Kay Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992)

1993

Richard Kitson, Dwight's Journal of Music (1852–1881) (Ann Arbor, Mich.: U.M.I., 1991)

1992

Allen Perdue Britton, Irving Lowens, and Richard Crawford, American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698–1810: A Bibliography (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1990)

1991

Hans-Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff, Bach Compendium: Analytisch-bibliographisches Repertorium der Werke Johann Sebastian Bachs (Frankfurt, New York: C.F. Peters, 1985–89)

1990

Anik Devries and Franois Lesure, Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique francais, vol. II (Géneve: Editions Minkoff, 1988)

Thomas J. Mathiesen, Ancient Greek Music Theory: a Catalogue Raisonné of Manuscripts (RISM B/XI) (Munchen: G. Henle, 1988)

1989

Arthur B. Wenk, Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music (Boston: Music Library Association, 1987)

1988

H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (London: Macmillan, 1986)

1987

John Reed, The Schubert Song Companion (New York: Universe Books, 1985)

1986

Donald L. Hixon, Thea Musgrave: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984)

1985

Boston Area Music Libraries, The Boston Composers Project (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983)

1984

Carol J. Oja, ed., American Music Recordings: A Discography of 20th Century U.S. Composers (Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1982)

1983

D. W. Krummel et al., Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981)

1982

Anna Harriet Heyer, comp., Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to Their Contents, 3d ed. (Chicago: American Library Association, 1980)

1981

No Award

1980

Maurice Hinson, The Piano in Chamber Ensemble: An Annotated Guide (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978)

1979

Rita Benton, Ignace Pleyel: A Thematic Catalogue of His Compositions (New York: Pendragon Press, 1977)

1978

E. Ruth Anderson, comp., Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1976)