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Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe
The acronym DORMEME stands for “Dissemination, Ownership, and Reading of Music in Early Modern Europe.” This interdisciplinary project – led by Dr. Elisabeth Giselbrecht at King’s College London – focuses on surviving copies of polyphony printed across Europe between 1500 and 1545, and poses diverse questions regarding their users. Who...
9 April 2026 – Evénements
Collaboration between the WEAVE project "Tartinians" and RISM supports the long-term preservation of project data
The WEAVE research project Tartinians – The School of Nations and its networks, based at the Universities of Graz and Augsburg, as well as the Schola Cantorum in Basel, was launched in April 2025. It examines the pedagogical work of Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) and his students primarily on three levels:...
2 April 2026 – A la une
The National Library of Spain and its Music Department collaborated with RISM to disseminate its musical heritage
Over the past 30 years, the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) collaborated closely with the RISM project. Through Nieves Iglesias and José Carlos Gosálvez the National Library participated in the team that translated RISM’s cataloging guidelines into Spanish – alongside other notable experts such as José Vicente, González Valle and...
26 March 2026 – Collections de bibliothèques
Music manuscripts from Cologne now linked to digitized copies
One of the major benefits of the RISM database is the option to link the description of manuscripts and printed editions with digitized copies of the original sources, thereby allowing users to access right away the items of interest to them. A while ago the Cologne University and City Library...
19 March 2026 – Collections de bibliothèques
Oratorio libretti in the CRAI Library of the University of Barcelona and their music
The CRAI Biblioteca de Fons Antic at the University of Barcelona houses an extensive collection of libretti, including a group of 173 titles once performed in the Cathedral of Barcelona. However, the music associated with these texts is scattered across various libraries, some of them in Catalonia, and until recently...
12 March 2026 – Redécourvertes
Annual Report 2025
Approaching the closure of a decades-long project for which the RISM Editorial Center received support from the German Akademienprogramm, throughout the year 2025 we were busy clarifying how the core services earlier offered by the Editorial Center (better known as RISM Zentralredaktion) could be ensured in the future. While in...
5 March 2026 – Nouveautés
Special exhibition with new Bach sources from Leipzig
In a special exhibition, the Leipzig City Archive (in cooperation with the Leipzig Bach Archive and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig) presents recently discovered and yet unknown sources in regard to Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christoph Gottsched and Georg Philipp Telemann. The following exhibition announcement is reproduced with...
26 February 2026 – Evénements
Unknown music from Central and South America in the so-called 'Old Schott Archive' of the Mainz-based publishing house B. Schott's Söhne
As part of the joint project “Cataloging, digitization and online presentation of the historical archive of the music publisher Schott,” in 2025 the Bavarian State Library completed the cataloging of the so-called “Old Schott Archive” in the RISM database. This task was carried out with funding by the German Research...
19 February 2026 – Collections de bibliothèques
IAML Online Event "Researching and Cataloging Historical Bookbindings: Two Perspectives"
The following has reached us from the IAML Online Events Committee. The IAML Online Events Committee and the Research Libraries Section are pleased to announce a new 2026 online event on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 14:00 UTC/GMT. See other time zones by clicking here. Participation is free and open...
12 February 2026 – Evénements
Premier enregistrement de neuf pièces de la Renaissance
L’association bâloise pour la musique ancienne ReRenaissance a publié en décembre 2025 l’album Lost & Found: Rediscovered Treasures of the German Renaissance, réalisé en collaboration avec le RISM Digital Center. Cet enregistrement documente pour la première fois neuf compositions à trois voix imprimées par Christian Egenolff à Francfort en 1536...
5 February 2026 – Redécourvertes
