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Vincent H. Duckles Award


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

Receipients of the Vincent H. Duckles Award:

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)
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)