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Three Musical Children: A Common Illustration on 18th-Century Printed Music
We have a guest post by Martin Bierwisch (Universität Mainz): Decorative frames, extravagant illustrations, or even small vignettes are typical elements that catch the eye on music printed editions. You can of course find a lot of nice examples through the digitized sources linked in the RISM online catalog, but...
11 February 2021 – Nouveau au RISM
An Internship in Stages: How an Internship at RISM was Possible, Despite the Corona Pandemic
Report on an internship at the RISM Zentralredaktion in Frankfurt am Main My internship at the RISM Editorial Center in Frankfurt am Main was marked by the 2020 corona pandemic. It all began in December 2019 with an application and interview at the RISM office in the presence of the...
8 February 2021 – Nouveau au RISM
Introductory Muscat Workshops in February 2021 (FULL)
The English workshops are now full. If you are interested in attending a future Muscat workshop, please write to contact@rism.info and we will let you know when future dates have been set. The RISM Editorial Center will be hosting an online, introductory two-part workshop on cataloging musical sources using the...
4 February 2021 – Evénements
OnStage
Nous avons reçu les informations suivantes du RISM Digital Center: OnStage est le portail de documents numérisés sur les performances musicales en Suisse (ce qu’on appelle les performance ephemera, comme programmes et annonces de concerts). OnStage présente actuellement les collections du Conservatoire de Lausanne, du Conservatoire de Genève, de l’Association...
1 February 2021 – Ressources en ligne
The Music Collection of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Teplice, Czech Republic
We have received the following from Ludmila Mikulášová (RISM Prague): During the 18th and 19th centuries, Teplice was an important spa town visited by many European celebrities and crowned heads (for example, Tsar Peter the Great in 1712; the Swedish King Gustav IV in 1804; the Prussian King Frederick William...
28 January 2021 – Collections de bibliothèques
Digital Collections Portal at the Leipzig Bach Archive
We would like to share this announcement with you courtesy of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig: To celebrate its 70th anniversary, in November 2020 the Leipzig Bach Archive launched a web portal that provides digital access to the archive’s historical collections. At digitalesammlungen.bach-leipzig.de, objects from the archive’s collections and important permanent loans...
25 January 2021 – Ressources en ligne
500th Anniversary of Erhard Öglin's Death
We have received the following from Nicole Schwindt (Chair, RISM Germany): The turn of the year 2020/2021 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the first printer to print mensural music with movable type in Germany. The Augsburg-based printer Erhard Öglin published a music book only six years after...
21 January 2021 – Anniversaires
Cataloging Music Manuscripts from the Rostock University Library by RISM Germany (Dresden)
The Dresden office of RISM Germany commenced a project in December 2020 to catalog the music manuscripts in the Rostock University Library (D-ROu). The collection comprises ca. 950 manuscripts from the 16th to 19th centuries. The first batch of manuscripts that arrived in Dresden for cataloging contains the music collection...
18 January 2021 – Nouveau au RISM
Composer Anniversaries 2021
Happy New Year! As in past years, we are using the beginning of the year to look at significant anniversaries of birth or death for people found in the RISM catalog. We are listing not only composers in RISM, but also librettists, performers, and dedicatees, or also people who are...
14 January 2021 – Anniversaires
Announcing the First RISM Lecture: The Fondo Cappella Sistina in RISM
The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) has long provided both musicologists and performing musicians with indispensable research tools. Currently, RISM’s freely available online catalog includes over 1.2 million records for musical sources held in diverse institutions around the world. Major additions to the database have oftentimes resulted from larger-scale...
11 January 2021 – Evénements
