Fontes Special Issue
Issue 69/3 (2022) of Fontes Artis Musicae is in celebration of RISM. Details here
The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) - International Inventory of Musical Sources - is an international, non-profit organization that aims to comprehensively document extant musical sources worldwide: manuscripts, printed music editions, writings on music theory, and libretti that are found in libraries, archives, churches, schools, and private collections. RISM’s over 1.4 million records can be searched at no cost through the RISM Catalog and RISM Online. RISM was founded in Paris in 1952 and is the largest and only global organization that documents written musical sources. RISM records what exists and where it can be found.
Fontes Special Issue
Issue 69/3 (2022) of Fontes Artis Musicae is in celebration of RISM. Details here
Search RISM’s abbreviations for libraries, archives and collections with historical music holdings
Librarians, see here what RISM has to offer you
All about Muscat, RISM’s specialized program for cataloging musical sources
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Fontes Special Issue
Issue 69/3 (2022) of Fontes Artis Musicae is in celebration of RISM. Details here
Search RISM’s abbreviations for libraries, archives and collections with historical music holdings
Librarians, see here what RISM has to offer you
All about Muscat, RISM’s specialized program for cataloging musical sources