David Lasocki

Prizes

  • “Professional Recorder Players in England, 1540–1740.” Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Iowa, 1983.
    • Winner of the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in Humanities/Fine Arts, 1984.
  • Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki assisted by Peter Holman and Fiona Kisby. A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485–1714, 2 vols. Aldershot, Hampshire and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998.
    • Winner of the C. B. Oldman Prize awarded by the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Document Centres (UK Branch) for the best music reference book published in 1998.
  • “New Light on the Early History of the Keyed Bugle from Newspaper Advertisements. Part 1: The Astor Advertisement and Collins v. Green.” Historic Brass Society Journal 21 (2009): 11–50. “Part 2: More on England and Ireland; the United States.” Historic Brass Society Journal 22 (2010): 19–34.
    • Winner of the 2012 Frances Densmore Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society for the most distinguished article-length work in English that furthers the goals of the Society published in 2009–10.
  • Richard Griscom and David Lasocki. The Recorder: A Research and Information Guide, 3nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2012.
    • Winner of the Vincent H. Duckles Award from the Music Library Association for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool (2014).
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully and the Flûte: Recorder, Voice Flute, and Traverso. Portland, OR: Instant Harmony, 2019.
    • Winner of the 2021 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society for the most distinguished book written in English that furthers the goals of the Society published in 2019.
  • “David Lasocki is the central personality of recorder research, not only for his fundamental musicological researches about the recorder, but because of his indefatigable activity to examine, organize, and evaluate the whole world of publications about that instrument as well.” Janos Bali, A furulya [The Recorder] (Budapest: Editio Musica, 2007), 160 (translated from the Hungarian).
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