Editor-in-Chief,
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Director, Barry S. Brook Center for Music
Research and Documentation
CUNY Graduate
Center
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Avenue
New York, NY
10016
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817-1991
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E-mail:
bmackenzie@rilm.org
Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie is editor-in-chief of Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), which publishes RILM abstracts of music literature, the RILM Retrospective Series (for which she is series editor), and How to write about music: The RILM manual of style. The most recent volume in the Retrospective Series, Speaking of music: Music conferences, 1835-1966, won the prestigious Vincent H. Duckles Award for best music research tool published in 2004, awarded by the Music Library Association in March 2006. Mackenzie is also the director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. The Brook Center’s projects include the Research Center for Music Iconography (RCMI); Music in Gotham: The New York Scene, 1863-1875; the Foundation for Iberian Music; the Pergolesi Research Center; the Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments; French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries (a facsimile series); and the 18th-Century Symphony Archive. Mackenzie received her Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Michigan; her dissertation is entitled “The creation of a genre: Comic opera’s dissemination in Italy in the 1740s”. Publications in addition to RILM include several articles on the Baglioni family of 18th-century opera singers for The new Grove dictionary of opera and the second edition of The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, and “Neapolitan Comic Opera in Naples and in Rome: Pergolesi’s Lo frate ‘nnammorato and Latilla’s La finta cameriera” in Studi pergolesiana 3 (1999), as well as numerous bibliographic articles. Mackenzie is active in the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (chair: annual RILM sessions), the Music Library Association, and the American Musicological Society (for which she has served on the Committee for Career-Related Issues), and NFAIS (a membership organization for groups that aggregate, organize and facilitate access to information). She serves on the Board of Directors of IAML-US, NFAIS, and Tannery Pond Concerts. Before coming to RILM, Mackenzie taught music history at Western Michigan University and the University of Michigan.