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The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 2006. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2006 was presented to Diccionario de la Zarzuela: España e Hispanoamérica, 2d ed., under the direction of Emilio Casares Rodicio (Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2006). The MLA Publications Awards Committee noted that "the musical stage works known as zarzuelas remain relatively obscure in North America. However, by its sheer volume of 2,087 pages, the Diccionario de la Zarzuela affirms the importance of this genre on the Iberian peninsula and throughout the Spanish-speaking Americas. With entries for composers, performers, countries, and individual zarzuelas, the Diccionario provides a wealth of detail from a cadre of experts, and bibliographies and discographies at the end of articles point to even more information in the field. Even the sepia-toned illustrations throughout the Diccionario recall readers to the heyday of the zarzuela in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For its exploration of this important facet of musical life in the Spanish-speaking world . . . it will remain an essential reference tool on the zarzuela for many years to come." The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review published in Notes in 2006 was awarded to John Wagstaff for his review of Katharine Ellis's Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). The review appeared in Notes 63, no. 2 (December 2006): 355–58. The committee stated that "John Wagstaff 's perceptive observations about French cultural preoccupations serve as an effective framework for evaluating Ellis's study. Politics and music intertwine as he skillfully summarizes the book's content, and his commentary reveals a sophisticated understanding of the subject at hand. Wagstaff relates Ellis's book to her previous work in this area, investing his review with the advantage of a deeper perspective. By contrasting historiographical method in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music studies, he offers a starting point for further discussion. Moreover, his engaging writing makes this review a pleasure to read." The Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature was awarded to James Deaville for his article "Publishing Paraphrases and Creating Collectors: Friedrich Hofmeister, Franz Liszt, and the Technology of Popularity," published in Franz Liszt and His World, ed. Christopher H. Gibbs and Dana Gooley (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 255–88. The committee commented that "Deaville's article offers a new look into the symbiotic links between composer, performer, and publisher, and how these relationships functioned in the world of nineteenth-century commerce. Supported by path-breaking work with unpublished letters and previously inaccessible business records, Deaville explores how one publisher, Friedrich Hofmeister of Leipzig, both responded to and helped create the nineteenth-century Liszt craze. His study clarifies and augments our understanding of early Liszt publishing practices, of 19th-century German music collecting, and of how one particular publisher, Hofmeister, met the emerging cultural needs of the time."

Other MLA Awards. The 2008 Dena Epstein Award for Library and Archival Research in American Music was given to two recipients, Steven Robert Swayne and Nikos Pappas. Mr. Swayne, associate professor of music at Dartmouth College, will develop a book proposal for the first comprehensive study of the life, times, and music of William Schuman (1910–1992). Currently, his working title for the book is Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America's Musical Life. Mr. Swayne has conducted a significant amount of research already at the New York Public Library, which holds the William Schuman papers. He will now travel to the Library of Congress to tackle the composer's papers and music manuscripts residing there. Nikos Pappas is a doctoral candidate in musicology at the University of Kentucky. His proposal, entitled Sacred Music Tune Index of Trans-Appalachian and Southern Antebellum Source Material (1760–1870), follows the initiatives of earlier scholars in American sacred music. His project involves the documentation of tune repertories, musical performance, and composition, with its dissemination to the American...