Music prints and manuscripts from the Donaueschingen court library now fully accessible online

The following text by Gerrit Heim first appeared on BLBlog and is reprinted here with kind permission. With the music archive, the government of Baden-Württemberg purchased yet another valuable collection from the Princely Fürstenberg Court Library in Donaueschingen in 1999. The acquisition was primarily funded by the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Heritage...

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New Webpage for RISM Data Exports

We would like to announce the availability of a new webpage that provides access to the latest version of the RISM dataset. The page RISM Data Exports is where you can find RISM’s records for sources (the file name beginning with source) and authority records (the files beginning with institution,...

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The revision of historical music prints at the LBZ / Pfälzische Landesbibliothek in Speyer

The following guest post is by Daniel Fromme (Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ)). He presents a project that we highly recommend others emulate: A significant music collection of the Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ) – kept at its Speyer branch, the Pfälzische Landesbibliothek (D-SPlb) – includes modern sheet music editions as well as ca....

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Card indexes of music prints from the RISM offices in Munich and Dresden digitised

The two German offices of the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales in Dresden and Munich hold extensive card indexes from the first decades of their activities. The card index of series A/I (“Music prints before 1800”) documents the data collected on music prints owned by institutions in Germany during the...

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RISM for Musicians

Although at the time of its founding RISM was designed for libraries and scholars, there are of course many cases where our database can be a particularly valuable resource for musicians. Those who simply want to play from the latest commercial edition of a work will not find what they...

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