Duckies, Vincent H(arris)
Duckies, Vincent H(arris)
Duckies, Vincent H(arris), American musicologist; b. Boston, Sept. 21,1913; d. Berkeley, Calif., July 1, 1985. He began his training at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley (A.B., 1936). After studies at Columbia Univ. (M.A. in music education, 1937; Ed.D., 1941), he pur-sued training once more at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley (B.L.S., 1949; Ph.D., 1953, with the diss. John Gamble’s Commonplace Book). He also held Fulbright senior research scholarships at the Univ. of Cambridge (1950–51) and at the Univ. of Göttingen (1957–58), and a grant-inaid from the American Council of Learned Societies for research in Europe (1964–65). He was a music librarian (1949–57), assoc. prof. (1957–60), and prof. (1960–81) at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley. In 1982 he was made an honorary member of the American Musicological Soc. He specialized in 17th-century English song literature, music bibliography, and the history of musical Scholarship. He publ. the valuable and enduring source Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography (N.Y., 1964; 5th ed., rev., 1997 by I. Reed).
Bibliography
P. Elliott and M. Roosa, “V. D. (1913–1985): A Bibliography of His Publications,” Notes (Dec. 1987).
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