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Wedding Music by Melchior Franck
Since today is Valentine’s Day, we’re going to take a look at three pieces by Melchior Franck (ca. 1579-1639) that were written for weddings. Festive music composed especially for the occasion has unfortunately gone out of style today. Many bridal couples are instead quick to draw on the “Wedding March”...
14 February 2019 – Evénements
New Catalog of the Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Antequera Oaxaca (Mexico)
We have received the following from Edgar Alejandro Calderón Alcántar (Conservatorio de las Rosas) and Anastasia Krutitskaya (ENES, UNAM), Morelia, Mexico: Anastasia Krutitskaya and Edgar Alejandro Calderón Alcántar. Repertorio de villancicos y cantadas del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Antedquera Oaxaca (cajas 49 y 50). Mexico City: Universidad Nacional...
11 February 2019 – Nouveautés
Friedrich Rochlitz at 250
The Leipzig writer and music journalist Johann Friedrich Rochlitz (12 February 1769 - 16 December 1842) studied theology and philosophy before working as a tutor. In 1798 he founded the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung at Breitkopf & Härtel, serving as the journal’s editor until 1818. It developed into the most important...
7 February 2019 – RISM A-Z
New Projects with RISM's Music Incipts
If you use RISM’s catalog, you know that the music incipits are one of the things that make RISM stand out among other music projects and catalogs: the ability to see–and search for–the first few notes of a composition. In the Advanced Search, you can search by note name or...
4 February 2019 – Ressources en ligne
RISM in VIAF
RISM has been delivering its authority records for personal names to VIAF since the middle of 2018. VIAF is the Virtual International Authority File, a joint project with many participating national libraries and library associations that is run by the library cooperative OCLC. Participating institutions include the national libraries of...
31 January 2019 – Nouveau au RISM
Upcoming RISM Events in Argentina and Italy
Thanks to the efforts of our colleagues in other countries, two events will enable the close study of musical sources: a workshop and an internship. Muscat Workshop Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina March 25-29, 2019 This workshop is being hosted by Leonardo Waisman and the Grupo de Musicología Histórica Córdoba...
28 January 2019 – Evénements
The Digital Interactive Mozart Edition
To celebrate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 263rd birthday on 27 January, we would like to draw your attention to the Digital Mozart Edition (DME), a joint project from the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg and the Packard Humanities Institute in Los Altos, California, and to the release of the Digital Interactive Mozart...
24 January 2019 – Ressources en ligne
New Sources from Canada in RISM
The following is by Becky Shaw (Dalhousie University): The Killam Memorial Library at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; CDN-Hu) is pleased to announce the addition of their music manuscripts and first edition publications to RISM. These materials are located within the University Archive collection at the Library and their...
21 January 2019 – Collections de bibliothèques
Looking Back on 2018
Before we get too far into 2019, let’s take a look at our most popular stories on our blog that we published in 2018. In case you missed some of these discoveries and developments in the world of musical sources, here’s your chance to catch up! ...
17 January 2019 – Nouveau au RISM
Musical Anniversaries in 2019
Happy New Year! As in past years, we would like to take a look at musical anniversaries for the next twelve months. The people whose birthdays or anniversaries of death we mark are not only composers but they can also be librettists, performers, dedicatees, or people who are in other...
14 January 2019 – Anniversaires
