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How to Cite RISM

Most publications, whether online or in print, use their own style guides. However, citation styles frequently do not capture the nuances of historical music manuscripts and printed editions, making it difficult to identify the item with absolute clarity. RISM has recommendations for researchers and librarians to ensure that everyone knows...

19 May 2022 – Nouveau au RISM

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Hensel Songs Online

We have received the following from Tim Parker-Langston, editor of Hensel Songs Online: Hensel Songs Online is an online resource that offers its users free access to the sheet music of Fanny Hensel’s complete Lieder collection. Launched in Winter 2021, the edition includes nearly a hundred songs that had yet...

13 May 2022 – Ressources en ligne

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Chopin Heritage in Open Access

We have received the following from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute: 30,000 photographs, 500 first editions of Chopin’s works, more than 3,000 issues of 19th-century magazines, almost 1,000 hours of recordings, manuscripts, works, Fryderyk Chopin’s correspondence, hundreds of iconographic objects and works of art – the largest Chopin collection in the...

12 May 2022 – Ressources en ligne

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Musical Sources: Past and Future — An International Conference Celebrating 70 Years of RISM

7–9 October 2022, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Germany) Founded in 1952 by representatives of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML), the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) has long set the standard in the field of musical source studies. Over the...

9 May 2022 – Evénements

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RISM at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The following is by David Floyd, Binghamton University and Kirstin Dougan Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Kirstin Some of you may recall my presentation at IAML 2018 in Leipzig where I reported on the early findings of my institution’s work to inventory our holdings reported in RISM under...

5 May 2022 – Collections de bibliothèques

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Franz Liszt digital

Just eleven years ago at the opening of the international conference “Der ganze Liszt – Liszt-Interpretationen,” Prof. Dr. Detlef Altenburg lamented: “Even 125 years after his death, the works of Franz Liszt—unlike the oeuvres of Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy—have still only received insufficient scholarly attention...

2 May 2022 – Ressources en ligne

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Conserving creativity—the case of Beethoven’s ‘Kafka’ sketch miscellany

The following originally appeared on the British Library’s Music blog (© British Library Board, Creative Commons Attribution Licence). In this blog post we look at a recent conservation project involving an important Beethoven manuscript known as the ‘Kafka’ sketch miscellany (Add MS 29801). How did the manuscript come to be...

28 April 2022 – Collections de bibliothèques

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Revival after 267 years

We have received the following from our colleague Helmut Lauterwasser (RISM Germany): Time and again RISM cataloging brings to light compositions that have been considered lost for centuries. A case in point is the oratorio Abraham und Isaac by Gottlob Harrer (1703-1755), Johann Sebastian Bach’s direct successor as cantor of...

25 April 2022 – Redécourvertes

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The 2021 Annual Report

The 2021 annual report for the RISM Editorial Center has now been published. You can read the report in its entirety on the RISM website. Here are some of the highlights: The year 2021 was still overshadowed by the COVID pandemic and the diverse social restrictions inevitably also hindered RISM...

21 April 2022 – Nouveautés

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Searching by City in the RISM Catalog

The Online Directory of RISM Library Sigla makes it easy to search over 8,500 institutions that have official RISM library sigla. Library sigla are the abbreviations that RISM assigns to any institution that holds materials related to music research. See this video on YouTube for a demonstration. The sigla make...

13 April 2022 – Catalogue RISM en ligne

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