Mary S. Lewis

Mary Stuart Lewis^[1] (July 25, 1934 – October 28, 2017) was an American musicologist. A 1995 Guggenheim Fellow, she published the three-volume series Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-1569 from 1988 to 2007. She was a professor at Brown University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Lewis was born on July 25, 1934, in New York City.^[2] She attended Mary Baldwin College, where she got her bachelor of arts degree in 1954, and Columbia University, where she got her master of arts degree in 1958.^[2] She later obtained her master of science degree from Simmons College in 1970 and her doctor of philosophy degree from Brandeis University in 1979.^[2] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Antonio Gardane and His Publications of Sacred Music, 1538-55.^[1]

Originally working as a music instructor and research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1977, Lewis moved to Brown University as an assistant professor of music in 1981.^[2] After moving to the University of Pittsburgh in 1987, she was promoted to associate professor in 1993.^[2] She was also Pitt's first woman music faculty member to be tenured.^[3] She eventually became professor emerita at Pitt.^[3]

As a musicologist, Lewis specialized in Renaissance music, as well as the publishing side of music.^[3] In 1988, she released the first volume of Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-1569, a catalogue of the works of the Renaissance composer-printer of the same name, with the next two volumes released in 1997 and 2005;^[4][5][6] she won the Music Library Association's 2007 Vincent H. Duckles Award for the series.^[7] She later published Sources and the Circulation of Renaissance Music, a 2012 edited volume on the production and historical role of Renaissance music.^[8] She also served as council secretary of the American Musicological Society from 1987 to 1991, as well as president of the AMS' New England chapter from 1984 to 1986.^[9]

In 1995,^[10] Lewis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Renaissance composer-printer Antonio Gardano.^[2] She also received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (1980 and 1987), The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (1980-1981), the American Philosophical Society (1985), the Bibliographical Society of America (1986), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1995).^[9][2]

Lewis had four children, all of whom she raised while she was doing her graduate studies.^[3]

Lewis died on October 28, 2017.^[3]

• Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer, 1538-1569 (three volumes; 1988, 1997, and 2005)^{[5][11][12][13][14][6][4]}