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.

Seoul, South Korea

Muscat introduction, 10 April–15 May (Wednesdays) 2024
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
JeongYoun Chang (RISM South Korea)

Stellenbosch, South Africa (IAML Congress)

A two-part Muscat training session will be held on 28 June 2024 during the IAML Congress in Stellenbosch. Please see our IAML Stellenbosch page for details, including registration information.

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

  • 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 Zentralredaktion

  • 1 August 2023: Muscat introduction, IAML Congress, Cambridge
    Jennifer Ward, Balázs Mikusi

  • 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 Zentralredaktion

  • 4 May and 2 June 2023: Special Topics: Printed music, online
    Jennifer Ward, RISM Zentralredaktion

  • 25 and 27 April 2023: Muscat introduction, online
    Jennifer Ward, RISM Zentralredaktion

  • 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 Zentralredaktion

  • 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)