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The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 2005. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2005 was presented to Mary Lewis for her monumental study, Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-1569 (New York: Garland; Routledge, 1988-2005). The MLA Publications Awards Committee noted that this work was "... published over the course of seventeen years, and is now complete with volume 3 appearing in 2005. It stands as a major reference work on Gardano's music editions, some of the most important sources of sixteenth-century music and is a remarkable study of Renaissance publishing. Lewis is meticulous in her work, employing a number of approaches in her study of Gardano's role, including bibliographical, historical, and cultural considerations. This work will certainly stand as a major reference work and will be a shining example for all future works on Renaissance music printers and publishers." The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review published in Notes in 2005 was awarded to Ruth A. Solie for her review of George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture, ed. Michael Musgrave (New York: Palgrave, 2003). The review appeared in Notes 61, no. 3 (March 2005): 732-34. The committee stated "Solie's review strikes the perfect balance between providing readers with a summary overview of the contents of the book and engaging the multiple contributors as an intellectual peer. Solie finds a veritable feast of interesting material in the volume at hand--she refers to the inclusion in the end matter of Grove's note on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as 'for dessert.' Her ability to synthesize information about the book and deliver it to readers in a spirited and enlightening way reflects Solie's own distinguished career and writings. This contribution should serve as a model for all who would undertake reviewing for Notes." The Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature was awarded to Jeremy L. Smith for his article "A Newly Discovered Edition of William Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets & Songs:...

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