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The Music Library Association has announced its publications awards for 2001. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2001 was presented to Horst Leuchtmann and Bernhold Schmid for Orlando di Lasso: seine Werke in zeitgenossischen Drucken, 1555-1687, Orlando di Lasso: Samtliche Werke; Supplement (Kassel: Barenreiter, 2001). The MLA Publications Awards Committee noted that "This three-volume catalog of the compositions of Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) represents a singularly impressive bibliographical achievement by two leading Lasso scholars.... In addition to serving as a model of research and scholarship, Leuchtmann and Schmid's work underscores Lasso's prominence among Renaissance composers and his important place in Europe's transition to a culture of printed music during the sixteenth century." Teresa M. Gialdroni and Agostino Ziino received the Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bi bliographic nature published in 2001 for "New Light on Ottaviano Petrucci's Activity, 1520-38: An Unknown Print of the 'Motetti dal fiore'" (Early Music 29 [November 2001]): 500-532. The committee commented, "Rigorously argued and meticulously documented, Gialdroni and Ziino's article represents a significant contribution both to Petrucci research and the field of early music printing. Their analysis of the Tenor and Bassus partbooks of a...

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