Richard S. Hill Award

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

2013 Call for Nominations

Recipients

2013

James L. Zychowicz, "Gustav Mahler's Second Century: Achievements in Scholarship and Challenges for Research," Notes, 67:3 (2011), 457-482.

2012

Kate van Orden and Alfredo Vitolo, "Padre Martini, Gaetano Gaspari and the 'Pagliarini Collection': A Renaissance Music Library Rediscovered," Early Music History, 29 (2010), 241-324.

2011

Tim Brooks, "Copyright and historical sound recordings: Recent efforts to change U.S. law." Notes, 65:3 (2009), 464-474.

2010

Rupert Ridgewell. "Artaria Plate Numbers and the Publication Process,1778-87." In: Music and the Book Trade: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008.

2009

Edward Komara, “Culture Wars, Canonicity, and A Basic Music Library." Notes 64:2 (December 2007), 232–247.

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 56:3 (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 80:4 (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.