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Musicology

Laurie J. Sampsel Wins Vincent H. Duckles Award

Laurie J. Sampsel (PhD 2010) has been awarded the Music Library Association’s Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music. The honor comes in response to Sampsel’s Music Research: A Handbook (Oxford University Press, 2009), a monograph that draws on her extensive experience as an Associate Professor and Head of the Music Library at University of Colorado, Boulder. The MLA’s encomium for Music Research: A Handbook sums up both what Sampsel’s book has to offer and why her contribution is so significant.

Visiting Professor John Rice

When I recently met with Visiting Professor of Music John A. Rice in his office he was laboring over digitizing old microforms. The scanning process was not working quite how he expected, with only parts of the document showing up in the digital files. Rice was frustrated by the setback, but undaunted. And why should he be? Rescuing important information from obscurity is a big part of what he does as a musicologist, whether the goal is to strengthen the content of his graduate seminar or bring the work of an unjustly neglected 18th century composer back into the repertoire.

Wright's Rivermont Label Garners Grammy Nod

A CD produced by musicology graduate student Bryan Wright has been nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Album Notes. The notes for Dance-O-Mania: 1919-1923 - Harry Yerkes and the Dawn of the Jazz Age were written by Mark Berresford. Released earlier in 2009 on Wright's Rivermont Records label, the CD is a reissue of historic recordings by pioneering jazz band The Happy Six.

Wright founded Rivermont Records in 2004 as a way of preserving music for the first half of the 20th century. He selects the recordings for each CD, transfers from analog to digital domain, designs the cover art, and edit the notes. Wright also produces new recordings of vintage music.

Congratulations to Bryan Wright and Grammy nominee Mark Beresford for their work on Dance-O-Mania: 1919-1923 - Harry Yerkes and the Dawn of the Jazz Age!

“Listening to Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’”

4130 Posvar Hall, free Anna Nisnevich, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Pittsburgh, In conjunction with the Pittsburgh Opera's production of ‘Eugene Onegin' co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the Center for Russian and East European Studies4130 Posvar Hall, free Anna Nisnevich, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Pittsburgh, In conjunction with the Pittsbu

Fond Farewells: Professors Don Franklin and Mary Lewis Retire

Spring is always a time of change and transition for any academic institution, but that change is more acute than ever as the Department of Music wishes a fond farewell to Professors of Musicology Don Franklin and Mary Lewis. Professors Franklin and Lewis have been pioneers in their fields, of Bach scholarship and Medieval and Renaissance music respectively, and intellectual anchors in the life of the music department. There is no doubt that their contributions to and passion for the Department's goals will be sorely missed. The Department of Music held a celebration for Professor Franklin in January and for Professor Lewis in April. Both professors were joined by family members, former staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and administrators from the University for time to celebrate with shared memories and wishes for an invigorating future. don_joan.jpg (L-R) Dean N. John Cooper with Don and Joan Franklin mary_paula_pat.JPG Mary Lewis (C) with former Dept. of Music staff members Paul Riemer (L) and Patricia Cochran (R) Professor Don Franklin has provided international leadership in understanding the music of J.S. Bach and his contemporaries. From his service as president of the American Bach Society, to holding professorships at leading universities in the Germany and the United States, to his numerous publications exploring temporal procedures in 17th and 18th-century music, Franklin has left an indelible mark on his field. Locally, he is perhaps best known for his leadership, with John Goldsmith, of the Bach and Baroque series through which he performed many of J.S. Bach's cantatas, passions, the B minor Mass, and, in a fitting finale, the Christmas Oratorio to sold-out audiences. Professor Franklin's twelve years of service as Chair (1978–84 and 1990–96) helped shape the Department's exceptional reputation for music scholarship. Professor Mary S. Lewis has contributed ground-breaking research in early music and music of the Renaissance. Her three-volume work Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer 1538-1569: A Descriptive Bibliography and Historical Study (Garland Press) received The Music Library Association's 2007 Vincent H. Duckles Award, given annually for the best book-length bibliography or other research music tool. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Bunting Fellowship, and many more. Professor Lewis' energy in recruiting for the department's graduate programs is the stuff of legend, and her persistence when engaging prospective students brought many promising young scholars to the music department.