Workshops

Muscat workshops are hosted by the RISM Editorial Center or organized by members of our national groups around the world. If you are interested in organizing a workshop, we’re happy to assist. We can also give Muscat demonstrations online.

Access to a training server is available for use in demonstrations, at conferences, or in workshops.

To our regular Muscat users: You can also hold a Muscat workshop! Consider proposing a Muscat session for your next library or musicological association conference.

Upcoming workshops

Introduction to Muscat

The RISM Editorial Center regularly hosts introductory, two-part workshops on cataloging musical sources using the program Muscat. The workshops are geared towards people who are planning on collaborating with RISM, but anyone interested in Muscat or RISM’s cataloging guidelines is welcome to attend. The workshops are offered at no charge.

Online

The next online introductory Muscat workshop will be held upon request of anyone wishing to start a new RISM cataloging project. Please send an email to contact@rism.info.

Special Topics: Printed Music

This single, 90-minute online workshop is intended for current RISM contributors who wish to catalog printed music in Muscat. Topics covered include the structure of records, enhancing RISM records, creating new records, and composite volumes (prints and manuscripts bound together). Familiarity with Muscat and RISM’s cataloging rules is required.

The next sessions will be offered upon request.

Additional workshops (on any topic) can be offered upon request. Please send an email to contact@rism.info.

Past workshops and demonstrations

11-12 October 2024, Muscat introduction, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
Lucija Markulin, RISM Croatia
28 June 2024, Muscat introduction, IAML Congress, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Jennifer Ward, RISM Editorial Center
10 April–15 May (Wednesdays) 2024, Muscat introduction, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
JeongYoun Chang, RISM South Korea
19 and 21 February 2024: Muscat introduction, online
Jennifer Ward, RISM Editorial Center
8-10 November 2023: Muscat Workshop, National Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Guido Kraus, RISM Editorial Center
1 August 2023: Muscat introduction, IAML Congress, Cambridge
Jennifer Ward, Balázs Mikusi, RISM Editorial Center
April-June 2023, Muscat introduction, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
JeongYoun Chang, RISM South Korea
13–15 June 2023, NIFC, Kraków, Poland
Guido Kraus, RISM Editorial Center
4 May and 2 June 2023: Special Topics: Printed music, online
Jennifer Ward, RISM Editorial Center
25 and 27 April 2023: Muscat introduction, online
Jennifer Ward, RISM Editorial Center
30 September 2022: RISM cataloging demonstration, Seminar on interdisciplinary work in musical archives
Valentín Mansilla, Historical Musicology Study Group, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
26 July 2022: Muscat Workshop, IAML Congress, Prague
Jennifer Ward, Guido Kraus, RISM Editorial Center
4–6 July 2022: Muscat introduction, Warsaw
Ewa Hauptman-Fischer, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie, Gabinet Zbiorów Muzycznych
21–22 June 2022: Muscat introduction, Chopin Institute, Warsaw Guido Kraus (RISM Editorial Center)
14 and 16 March 2022: Muscat introduction, online
Jennifer Ward (RISM Editorial Center)
26 November and 10 December 2021, 14 January 2022: Archival Skills, Universität Salzburg
Eva Neumayr, RISM Salzburg
29 November and 1 December 2021: Muscat introduction, online
Jennifer Ward (RISM Editorial Center)
October (Fridays) 2021: Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
JeongYoun Chang, Korea National University of Arts
22 and 24 June 2021: Muscat introduction, online
Martina Falletta and Jennifer Ward (RISM Editorial Center)
22 and 24 February 2021: Muscat introduction, online
Martina Falletta and Jennifer Ward (RISM Editorial Center)
18 February 2021: Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium, Gent (online)
Jennifer Ward, RISM Editorial Center
Fall 2020 workshops: Muscat introduction, online
- November 16 and 18, 2020 (German, English)
  Martina Falletta and Jennifer Ward (RISM Central Office)
- November 23 and 25, 2020 (Italian)
  Martina Falletta (RISM Central Office)
- November 24 and 26, 2020 (English)
  Jennifer Ward (RISM Central Office)
- November 29 and December 1, 2020 (English)
  Jennifer Ward (RISM Central Office)
November 2020 (Fridays): Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea JeongYoun Chang, Korea National University of Arts
13 October 2020: RISM United Kingdom, online
Jennifer Ward, RISM Central Office
15 September 2020: IAML Germany conference, Bonn
Martina Falletta (RISM Central Office)
7-8 September 2020: Chopin Institute, Warsaw (online)
Guido Kraus (RISM Central Office)
3-7 August 2020: Chopin Institute, Warsaw (online)
Guido Kraus (RISM Central Office) and Marcelina Chojecka (Chopin Institute NIFC, Warsaw)
19-21 February 2020: Seminario de Introducción a la Catalogación Musical con Muscat-RISM, part of the conference Primeras Jornadas de Investigación Musical, Universidad Nacional de Loja, Ecuador
Rodrigo Balaguer and Lucas Reccitelli (RISM working group Córdoba, Argentina)
6 December 2019: Harvard University, Cambridge, United States. Muscat workshop for Harvard music catalogers.
Christina Linklater (RISM United States)
27 November 2019: Muscat Workshop, Acervo Curt Lange-UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
André Guerra Cotta (RISM Brazil)
11-14 November 2019: Musical Archivology course, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Workshop following the Congress of the Asociación Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de la Sociedad Internacional de Musicología (ARLAC/IMS)
André Guerra Cotta (RISM Brazil)
27 September 2019: Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Eva Neumayr (RISM Salzburg)
17 September 2019: Jahrestagung der IAML Ländergruppe Deutschland, Augsburg, Germany
Guido Kraus, Jennifer Ward
16 July 2019: IAML Congress, Kraków, Poland
RISM Workshop 1: Muscat basics
RISM Workshop 2: Continuation
Klaus Keil, Jennifer Ward
9-12 July 2019: Chopin Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Photos on Facebook
Guido Kraus
June 12-14, 2019: National Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Report
Guido Kraus
March 25-29, 2019: Primer Seminario Argentino de Capacitación en Catalogación Musical con MUSCAT-RISM,Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Report by Luciana Giron Sheridan and Lucas Reccitelli
Jennifer Ward
February 12-14, 2019: Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Stefanyk National Science Library, Lviv, Ukraine
Report by Angelika Moths
Guido Kraus
December 3-4, 2018: Conference on Cooperative Development and Sharing of Chinese Resources 2018, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China
Report by TSENG Tzu-Chia
Jennifer Ward
October 9-12, 2018: Music Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
Guido Kraus
October 4-6, 2018: Cataloging Printed Music, Frankfurt
RISM Central Office staff
Schedule (PDF)
July 24, 2018: IAML Congress in Leipzig, Germany
Martina Falletta, Klaus Keil, Guido Kraus, Jennifer Ward
Slides, Practice examples, Handout (all English)
March 5-8, 2018: Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Guido Kraus
November 27-29, 2017, National Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Report
Guido Kraus
November 9, 2017, Collaborative Project on Chinese Music Resources 2017 Annual Meeting and the International Workshop on Repatriation: History and Significance of Early Sound Recordings Made in China, Shanghai, China
Report by TSENG Tzu-Chia
Klaus Keil, TSENG Tzu-Chia
October 17, 2017, IAML Austria and the Kommission für Musik der VÖB, Salzburg and Vienna, Austria
Dr. Ikarus Kaiser
October 3-6, 2017, Celebración y sonoridad en Hispanoamérica (siglos XVI-XIX), Morelia, Mexico
Jennifer Ward
September 26-27, 2017, Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Guido Kraus
June 20, 2017, IAML Congress in Riga, Latvia
Klaus Keil, Jennifer Ward
Slides
June 19-23, 2017, VII Simpósio Internacional de Musicologia, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
André Guerra Cotta
June 15, 2017, Mark the Music course, Gothenburg, Sweden
Jennifer Ward
Slides
February 24, 2017, MLA Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA
Sarah Adams, Christina Linklater
January 18, 2017, Vienna (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek), Austria
Report by Stefan Engl
Ikarus Kaiser
January 12, 2017, Salzburg (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum), Austria
Report by Stefan Engl
Eva Neumayr
November 14-16, 2016, National Library, Prague, Czech Republic
Report
Guido Kraus
October 29, 2016, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Report
Klaus Keil, Laurent Pugin, Jennifer Ward
October 26-27, 2016, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany
Guido Kraus
October 24-25, 2016, National Library of Poland, Warsaw, Poland
Report
Sonia Wronkowska
October 12-14, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany
Central Office Staff
Schedule (PDF)