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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: Espana e Hispanoamerica, 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...