[ANPPOM-L] Musica Toscana International Prize (book or article on music in Tuscany)

[carlos palombini]

Musica Toscana, Inc., an educational foundation in Louisville, Ky., has announced a new international prize for the best article in a periodical or a collection of essays, or a book published in English, French, Italian, Spanish, or German within the calendar year and four prior years on a subject dealing with any aspect of music in Tuscany between 1590 and 1859. 

Nominations may be made by any member of the AMS, the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the Società Italiana di Musicologia, or the International Musicological Society; by a graduate with a degree in music history; or by the publisher of the article or book being nominated. Articles by students must be nominated by a faculty member of the institution where they are enrolled.

The nominated article or book must be submitted in three copies to 

The Musica Toscana Award Committee, 
c/o Robert Weaver, 
1711 Gardiner Lane, 
Louisville, KY, 40205

The award will be made by the Executive Board of Musica Toscana, Inc., on the recommendation of the Award Committee in April of the year following the nomination. Copies of submissions will be deposited in the Dwight Anderson Music Library of the School of Music at the University of Louisville after the award has been made. Publications of merit to which an award was not given will be retained and reintroduced in the next competition until five years have passed since the original nomination. If no work is nominated of sufficient merit, an award will not be made. The decision of the Executive Board of Musica Toscana, Inc., will be final.

The deadline for the receipt of a nomination will be 31 January 2008.

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