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The Music Library Association has announced its publication awards for 2004. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2004 was presented to Speaking of Music: Music Conferences, 1835-1966 (James R. Cowdery, Zdravko Blazekovic, Barry S. Brook, gen. eds., RILM retrospective series, no. 4 [New York: Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, 2004]). The MLA Publications Awards Committee noted that "Far surpassing previous bibliographies of congress reports and conference papers on musical topics by its use of abstracts describing individual papers, and by its comprehensive scope of coverage, Speaking of Music makes available an essential research tool organizing an important set of resources of retrospective literature otherwise not easily identified. One hundred twenty-five contributing abstractors under the direction of editors working over a period of three decades have amassed a bibliography that bares new paths for the history of musical scholarship as a field of study." The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review published in Notes in 2004 was awarded to Mary Sue Morrow for her review of Daniel Heartz, Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720-1780. The review appeared in Notes 60, no. 4 (June 2004): 958-61. The committee stated "Mary Sue Morrow goes well beyond merely outlining the substance and content of Daniel Heartz, Music in European Capitals, by stepping back and thoroughly and eloquently addressing organizational and interpretive strategies used in the work. Morrow's review is a well written analysis of a new work essential to the scholarship and understanding of the mid-18th century, particularly effective in discussing the approaches taken and how they differ from the traditional musicological conceptions." The Richard S. Hill Award for the best...