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Richard S. Hill Award


An annual award for the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature.

Receipients of the Richard S. Hill Award:

2008:
 James Deaville, "Publishing Paraphrases and Creating Collectors: Friedrich Hofmeister, Franz Liszt, and the Technology of Popularity," in Franz Liszt and His World, ed. Christopher H. Gibbs and Dana Gooley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, 255–288.
2007:
 Jeremy L. Smith, “A Newly Discovered Edition of William Byrd’s Psalmes, Sonets & Songs: Provenance and Significance” Notes 62, no. 2 (December 2005): 273–98.
2006:
 Kiri Miller, “First Sing the Notes': Oral and Written Traditions in Sacred Harp Transmission," American Music 22 (Winter 2004): 475–501.
2005:
 Leslie Troutman, "Comprehensiveness of Indexing in Three Music Periodical Index Databases" Music Reference Services Quarterly 8:1 (2001), 39–51.
2004:
 No Award
2003:
 Teresa M. Gialdroni and Agostino Ziino, "New Light on Ottaviano Petrucci's Activity, 1520–38: An Unknown Print of the Motteti dal fiore." Early Music 29 (November 2001): 500–532.
2002:
 A. Ralph Papakhian , "Cataloging" in 'Music Librarianship at the Turn of the Century,' Notes, Vol. 56, no. 3, (2000):581–590.
2001:
 Jeremy Smith, "From 'Rights to Copy' to 'Bibliographic Ego': A New Look at the Early Edition of Byrd's 'Psalmes, Sonets & Songs'," Music & Letters, 80, no. 4 (1999): 511–530.
2000
 David H. Thomas and Richard P. Smiraglia, "Beyond the Score," Notes 54 (1998): 649–666.
1999:
 Laurent Guillo, "Les Caractère de musique utilisés des origines à environ 1650 dans les anciens Pays-Bas," Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation 2 (1997): 183–235.
1998:
 Ira Brilliant and Patricia Elliott, "A Ten-Year Review of the Beethoven Auction Market (1985–1995)," The Beethoven Journal 11, no. 1 (1996): 26–31.
1997:
 Michael Burden, "The Independent Masque 1700–1800: A Catalogue," Research Chronicle 28 (1995): 59–159.
1996:
 Barry Kernfeld and Howard Rye, "Comprehensive Discographies of Jazz, Blues, and Gospel," Notes 51 (1994–95): 501–47; 865–91.
1995:
 John Milsom, "The Nonsuch Music Library," in Sundry Sorts of Music Books: Essays on the British Library Collections, ed. Chris Banks, Arthur Searle, and Malcolm Turner (London: The British Library, 1993), 146–82.
1994:
 Danette Cook Adamson and Mimi Tashiro, "Servants, Scholars, and Sleuths: Early Leaders in California Music Librarianship," Notes 48 (March 1992): 806–35.
1993:
 John Graziano, "Music in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal," Notes 48 (December 1991): 383–424.
1992:
 Jean K. Wolf and Eugene K. Wolf, "Rastrology and Its Use in Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Studies," in Studies in Musical Sources and Style: Essays in Honor of Jan LaRue, 237–291. Ed. Eugene K. Wolf and Edward H. Roesner (Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, 1990)
1991:
 Gillian B. Anderson, "Putting the Experience of the World at the Nation's Command: Music at the Library of Congress, 1800–1917." Journal of the American Musicological Society 42 (Spring 1989): 108–49.
1990:
 John Beckwith, "Tunebooks and Hymnals in Canada, 1801–1939," American Music 6 (Summer 1988): 193–234.
1989:
 Carl D. Schmidt, "Newly Identified Manuscript Sources of the Music of Jean-Baptiste Lully," Notes 44 (September 1987): 7–32.
1988:
 Carol June Bradley, "Notes of Some Pioneers: America's First Music Librarians," Notes 43 (December 1986): 272–91.
1987:
 Austin Clarkson, "The Works of Stefan Wolpe: A Brief Catalogue," Notes 41 (June 1985): 667–82.
1986:
 Sabina Teller Ratner, "A Cache of Saint-Sans Autographs," Notes 40 (March 1984): 487–502.
1985:
 Jeffrey Kallberg, "Chopin in the Marketplace," Notes 39 (1982–83): 535–69; 795–824.
1984:
 James Bradford Young, "An Account of Printed Music ca. 1724," Fontes Artis Musicae 29 (July–September 1982): 129–36.
1983:
 Richard P. Smiraglia and Arsen R. Papakhian, "Music in the OCLC Online Union Catalog: A Review," Notes 38 (December 1981): 257–74.
1982:
 Ralph P. Locke and Jurgen Thym, "New Schumann Materials in Upstate New York: A First Report on the Dickinson Collection, with Catalogues of its Manuscript Holdings," Fontes Artis Musicae 27 (July–December 1980): 137–61.
1981:
 Martin Marks, "Film Music: The Material, Literature, and Present State of Research," Notes 36 (December 1979): 282–325.
1980:
 Michael D. Williams, Source: Music of the Avant Garde: Annotated List of Contents and Cumulated Indices (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Music Library Association, 1978)
1979:
 No Award
1978:
 Richard D. Claypool, "Archival Collections of the Moravian Music Foundation and Some Notes on the Philharmonic Society of Bethlehem," Fontes Artis Musicae 23 (October–December 1976): 177–90.