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The Music Library Association has announced its publications awards for 2003. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2003 was presented to the Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siecle (Paris: Fayard, 2003). The MLA Publications Awards Committee noted that "Prepared under the direction of editor Joel-Marie Fauquet, the Dictionnaire draws upon the expertise of nearly two hundred contributors, who together detail the rich and varied musical landscape in France during the nineteenth century. Deserving particular praise in the Dictionnaire are the coverage of lesser-known composers and performers, the attention given to musical activities in provincial centers, and the synthesis of disparate dates and facts into clearly presented tables and charts. The Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siecle forms a welcome companion volume to the earlier Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Paris: Fayard, 1992), and is of interest to all students of the nineteenth century, not only those involved with music." The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review published in Notes in 2003 was awarded to Ann Morrison Spinney for her review of Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements, edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine (Recent Researches in American Music, 44. Music of the United States of America, 11 [Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2002]). The review appeared in Notes 59, no. 3 (March 2003): 624-26. The committee stated "Spinney's informative contribution offers thoughtful, critical assessments of the strategies and achievements of the work under consideration with regard to its intended audience and beyond. In the process, the reviewer displays an impressive knowledge of the historical accounts...

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