Valerio Morucci has won the 2013 Ingolf Dahl Award for his paper “Secular Patronage at the Orsini Court: Music, Poetry, and the Rhetoric of Early Monody,” from the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society.

The award was established in 1971 in memory of Professor Ingolf Dahl at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. The authors of the award’s website write: “the award is given for the best student paper read at the annual joint meeting of the Northern California and Pacific Southwest chapters by a student who is currently enrolled in an institution within the boundaries of the two sponsoring chapters.”