Demestvo or Demestvennoe mnogogolosie: An Example of Early Russian Orthodox Vocal Polyphony

Our colleague Elena Chernova has created a critical edition of the music manuscript Add. MS 30063 from the British Library (GB-Lbl). The ceremonial illuminated manuscript dates from the time 1685 to 1710 and likely originally belonged to the choir of the Moscow Patriarch. It contains the repertoire of the singers...

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RISM Lecture on Mexican Sources Now Online

The series of RISM Lectures, originally conceived as in-person events, first came to be realized during the COVID-19 pandemic in virtual form. Its first two incarnations – dedicated to the music archives of the Cappella Sistina and the Bach collection of the Berlin States Library were held exclusively online. As...

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Annual Report 2022

While the work of the RISM Editorial Center in Frankfurt was not strongly affected by the diverse Corona restrictions, the gradual return to personal meetings at major conferences inevitably made the year 2022 a “Retour à la vie” for the entire RISM community. This enabled us to pay due tribute...

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Alessandro Vessella (1860-1929)

Even through RISM has nearly 1,200 musical sources with his name, Alessandro Vessella RISM Catalog | RISM Online is probably known to only a few specialists. He was born in Alife in the Campania region of Italy and studied with Costantino Palumbo and Paolo Serrao at the conservatory in Naples....

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Transcripts of Dramatic Musical Works in Full Score at the Library of Congress

We have received news of a new research portal at the Library of Congress from Susan Clermont (Music Division): A bibliography of over 600 transcripts of dramatic musical works in full score copied from original music manuscripts and early imprints for the Library of Congress’s Music Division between 1903 and...

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